On Dec 4, 2007 11:35 AM, Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:29 +0000, Stef Walter wrote: > > Dan Winship got me thinking about the "unable to verify identify of this > > certificate" dialogs we see in browsers when using self-signed or > > otherwise unverifiable certificates. > > > > I'm sure others have come to this conclusion: These are some of the most > > useless dialogs that exist, a major cop out. They basically asking the > > user something they can almost never possibly know. > > > > I'd like to propose [1] that we do away with these dialogs in GNOME. In > > my opinion if we cannot verify the certificate, then we should simply > > not show the UI elements that indicate a secure connection. We should > > just act as if the connection is like any other normal connection. > > Unfortunately, one of the main UI elements that indicate a secure > connection is the https:// URL in the URL bar. Are you proposing to > disguise that as well?
Mozilla has proposed disposing of the protocol signifier altogether, in part (IIRC) for security reasons. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/02/location_bar_proposal.html _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
