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Re: Good enough?

2005-01-05 13:41:15

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

The authentication is for the benefit of ordinary users, not technical
specialists.

In your view, how should the system deal with a message that has a broken
signature? How should this problem be presented to an ordinary user in a
way that they'll understand, or at least react safely? How will you avoid
the web browser SSL user interface disaster?

Tony.
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