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Re: Secure Metadata

From: George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:53:12 -0400
Cc: public-usable-authentication@w3.org
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On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:49, Michael.Mccormick@wellsfargo.com wrote:
> RFC 3709 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3709.txt) defines an X.509
> extension that allows optional logographic images for community, issuer,
> and subject organizations.
>
> Say for example GM obtained web server SSL certificates from VeriSign
> for use within their supplier community.  The cert could display logos
> for GM, VeriSign, and the auto parts exchange (or any subset /
> combination thereof).

  Right... but the question is, do we fill the chrome with all of these 
things? :-)  This is a lot of real-estate, it's a potential new phishing 
vectors, and it's going to be really hard to remove one day when we decide 
that problems 1 and 2 are too much to handle.

-- 
George Staikos
KDE Developer				http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc.		http://www.staikos.net/
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