On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:50:48 +0200
Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Then again, misspelled fishing would be an order of magnitude harder
> if banks and retailers started using S/MIME, which is widely
> implemented today, 

S/MIME would be a fine start.  It also won't solve the problem until
someone develops a user interface that DTRT for naive users who don't
understand trust anchors, the difference between authentication and
authorization, or how to distinguish myfinancialcompany.com from
myfinancia1company.com when both have valid certificates.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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