Hey folks, I've opened a bug to track some redesign work in the SSL/TLS certificate viewer. It can be found here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380775 The motivation is explained in the bug, but I wanted to ensure this community was aware of the bug, and had a chance to get their comments in. I'll include the motivation here too, so people understand why I'm interested in getting this work done: Certificates are a very technical subject and we don't anticipate users walking the tree of cert properties as part of their day-to-day browsing. We do, however, launch the certificate viewer from the browser in various places as a way for users to "Verify the certificate." This leads to things like bug 337392 which are really just the result of frustration, because the current cert viewer UI is not optimized for the case of a non-expert user trying to make a trust determination. I propose changing the general tab as presented in the attachment, so that the information more neatly anticipates this scenario. Emphasis is placed on the subject and issuer particulars, and taken away from x509 details like fingerprints (still present, but with some descriptive text) and prescribed usages. This also addresses Firefox 3 line item: SPI-001f. I would encourage anyone with comments to add them to the bug instead of here, so that the conversation doesn't fracture. Cheers, Johnathan -- Johnathan Nightingale Human Shield Mozilla Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
