Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Palmer
FWIW, that's a misquote; I didn't write that. On Aug 12, 2014 4:38 AM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: [Apologies if you've seen this before, it looks like up to a week's worth of mail from here has been lost, this is a resend of the backlog] Chris Palmer pal...@google.com

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-13 Thread Peter Gutmann
Chris Palmer pal...@google.com writes: FWIW, that's a misquote; I didn't write that. Ooops, sorry, it was posted by Patrick McManus pmcma...@mozilla.com (I used a script to try and resurrect the lost emails for re-send, I suspect something got mangled somewhere). So the question should have

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-13 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Wed, August 13, 2014 6:14 pm, Peter Gutmann wrote: Chris Palmer pal...@google.com writes: FWIW, that's a misquote; I didn't write that. Ooops, sorry, it was posted by Patrick McManus pmcma...@mozilla.com (I used a script to try and resurrect the lost emails for re-send, I suspect

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-12 Thread Peter Gutmann
[Apologies if you've seen this before, it looks like up to a week's worth of mail from here has been lost, this is a resend of the backlog] Chris Palmer pal...@google.com writes: Firefox 31 data: on desktop the median successful OCSP validation took 261ms, and the 95th percentile (looking at

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-11 Thread David E. Ross
On 8/10/2014 8:16 PM, David E. Ross wrote: On 8/10/2014 4:09 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 04:53:46PM -0700, David E. Ross wrote: Anyone wishing to argue this issue further -- to argue in favor of implementing a scheme to encourage all Web sites to be HTTPS with site

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-11 Thread Gervase Markham
On 11/08/14 04:16, David E. Ross wrote: Rosenthal is also a reseller of X.509 subscriber certificates, which should mean he understands Internet security. Otherwise, how is he allowed to sell such certificates? I don't often say this, because it's not often true, but... LOL. Gerv

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-11 Thread Richard Barnes
Can we please declare this thread closed? The level of debate has gotten a little low. --Richard On Aug 9, 2014, at 7:53 PM, David E. Ross nobody@nowhere.invalid wrote: On 7/19/2014 11:54 AM, Daniel Roesler wrote: Howdy all, Yesterday, I created a bug proposing that Firefox switch the

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-11 Thread diafygi
Yes, I started this thread. I officially declare this thread closed...even though I have no ability to enforce it. ___ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-10 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Sat, August 9, 2014 4:53 pm, David E. Ross wrote: Anyone wishing to argue this issue further -- to argue in favor of implementing a scheme to encourage all Web sites to be HTTPS with site certificates -- should first read

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-10 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 04:53:46PM -0700, David E. Ross wrote: Anyone wishing to argue this issue further -- to argue in favor of implementing a scheme to encourage all Web sites to be HTTPS with site certificates -- should first read

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-10 Thread Daniel Micay
On 10/08/14 11:16 PM, David E. Ross wrote: On 8/10/2014 4:09 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 04:53:46PM -0700, David E. Ross wrote: Anyone wishing to argue this issue further -- to argue in favor of implementing a scheme to encourage all Web sites to be HTTPS with site

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-10 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Sun, August 10, 2014 4:06 pm, Matt Palmer wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 11:52:16PM -0700, Ryan Sleevi wrote: At the risk of engaging what may be trolling behaviour (non-attributable email addresses and all that good jazz), and while a point-by-point takedown is not particularly worthy,

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-10 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Sun, August 10, 2014 8:16 pm, David E. Ross wrote: I was a computer systems integrator for over 30 years. I fully understand what integrator means. In my career, sopftware integration often included dealing with secure systems and how they were made secure. That's a very... liberal...

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-10 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 08:16:42PM -0700, David E. Ross wrote: On 8/10/2014 4:09 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 04:53:46PM -0700, David E. Ross wrote: Anyone wishing to argue this issue further -- to argue in favor of implementing a scheme to encourage all Web sites to be

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-09 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/19/2014 11:54 AM, Daniel Roesler wrote: Howdy all, Yesterday, I created a bug proposing that Firefox switch the generic url icon to a negative feedback icon for non-https sites. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041087 I created this bug because it's time we start

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-07 Thread husemann
On Thursday, 7 August 2014 01:27:29 UTC+2, Matt Palmer wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:02:57AM -0700, andrew.be...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything browser vendors can do to make SSL easier and cheaper across the board before punishing you for not using it? Implement support

DANE (was Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites)

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Barnes
On Aug 7, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Chris Palmer pal...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:11 AM, husem...@gmail.com wrote: I second that: DANE support is the right direction to go! It considerably raises the effort required to do MITM attacks, it allows the site ops to cut out the CAs

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Palmer
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:02 AM, andrew.be...@gmail.com wrote: I'm all for pushing people onto SSL, and of course if you stigmatise non-secure connections the demand for SSL increases and CDNs will need to compete on their ability to support it at a reasonable cost. But there's a chicken

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-23 Thread Jernej Simončič
on Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:24:30 -0700, Brian Smith wrote: Having said all of that, I remember that Mozilla did some user research ~3 years ago that showed that when we show a negative security indicator like the broken lock icon, a significant percentage of users interpreted the problem to lie

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-22 Thread Hubert Kario
- Original Message - From: Chris Palmer pal...@google.com To: Hubert Kario hka...@redhat.com Cc: David E. Ross nobody@nowhere.invalid, mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Tuesday, 22 July, 2014 1:08:57 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-22 Thread Adrienne Porter Felt
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Adrienne Porter Felt f...@chromium.org wrote: I would very much like to make http sites look insecure. But we face a very real problem: a large fraction of the web is still

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-22 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/22/2014 11:27 AM, Chris Palmer wrote [in part]: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, I previously wrote [also in part]: (Your intentionally broken email address suggests that you don't really want to communicate, so mostly this message is directed to the public list subscribers in

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-22 Thread Brian Smith
[+keeler, +cviecco] On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Chris Palmer pal...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Hubert Kario hka...@redhat.com wrote: I'm pretty sure Firefox merely remembers your decision to click through the warning, not that it pins the keys/certificates in the

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Palmer
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org wrote: Firefox's cert override mechanism uses a different pinning mechanism than the key pinning feature. Basically, Firefox saves a tuple (domain, port, cert fingerprint, isDomainMismatch, isValidityPeriodProblem,

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-21 Thread Hubert Kario
- Original Message - From: diaf...@gmail.com To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Monday, 21 July, 2014 4:08:30 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites So the general top criticism I'm seeing to this proposal

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-21 Thread Daniel Roesler
Gotta start somewhere. I actually kind of like the idea of showing the current generic icon for self-signed ssl certificates, and the broken lock icon for insecure connections. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Adrienne Porter Felt f...@chromium.org wrote: I would very much like to make http

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-21 Thread Daniel Roesler
Best case: no one will notice it after the first few days. Worst case: people notice it, and therefore start ignoring all https authentication errors. Is there a way to make the best case better, without ending up at the worst case? At least for Firefox, the gray broken lock icon option is

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-21 Thread Eric Mill
Not claiming to have the solution at hand, but the best first step might be non-scolding, non-lock-related imagery that clearly and affirmatively gets across that this is a *public* connection. Just brainstorming a bit here: * A charming low-fi icon of the all-seeing eye

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-21 Thread Daniel Micay
On 22/07/14 12:58 AM, Brian Smith wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Eric Mill e...@konklone.com wrote: Not claiming to have the solution at hand, but the best first step might be non-scolding, non-lock-related imagery that clearly and affirmativ' ely gets across that this is a *public*

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-20 Thread Hubert Kario
- Original Message - From: David E. Ross nobody@nowhere.invalid To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Sunday, 20 July, 2014 4:39:09 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites On 7/19/2014 11:54 AM, Daniel Roesler wrote

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-20 Thread Daniel Micay
On 20/07/14 06:23 AM, Hubert Kario wrote: - Original Message - From: David E. Ross nobody@nowhere.invalid To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Sunday, 20 July, 2014 4:39:09 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-20 Thread diafygi
: Sunday, 20 July, 2014 4:39:09 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites On 7/19/2014 11:54 AM, Daniel Roesler wrote: Howdy all, Yesterday, I created a bug proposing that Firefox switch the generic url icon to a negative

Re: Proposal: Switch generic icon to negative feedback for non-https sites

2014-07-19 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/19/2014 11:54 AM, Daniel Roesler wrote: Howdy all, Yesterday, I created a bug proposing that Firefox switch the generic url icon to a negative feedback icon for non-https sites. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041087 I created this bug because it's time we start