On Fri, 2 May 2008 08:33:19 +0100 "Arcane Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Phillips > Sent: 28 April 2008 23:13 > To: Cryptography > Subject: SSL and Malicious Hardware/Software > > > I can't think of a great way of alerting the user, > > I would be alerted immediately, because I'm using the Petname Tool > Firefox plugin. > > For an unproxied site, I get a small green window with my own choice > of text in it (e.g. "Gmail" if I'm visiting https://mail.google.com). > If a proxy were to insert itself in the middle, that window would > turn yellow, and the message would change to "(untrusted)". > Assorted user studies suggest that most users do not notice the color of random little windows in their browsers... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
