Charles Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Removing the warning would be a disservice to the user. Outside of
> corporate use, most secure web-browsing is done in order to secure the
> user's transfer of private information to some server, so what the
> _user_ thinks of the level of security is far more important than what
> the webmaster thinks.
One more comment. This is not the kind of security I'm interested in.
The kind of security I would be interested in, would give no indication
to the user that data is being encripted during transfer. It would
merely be something the site designer could make us of to provide some
level of security without making any promises that any existed.
The self-signed certificates would most like be defeated by IE (at least
IE 5.0 on the Mac seems to do this) or some other brower that would not
recognize them as valid and simply refuse to encript anything.
I think something like this is worthwhile. It would be a happy medium
between scary warnings and no security at all.
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