On 26 Sep 2013, at 22:59, Nick Jennings <nick@silverbucket.net> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 9/26/13 2:34 PM, Nick Jennings wrote: > In my opinion, (ie. for my use-cases) the value of an SSL cert is just to prevent MITM attacks and the like. Having an "officially issued" cert also gets rid of the annoying acceptance pop-up that you get from self-signed certs. > An artifact of browser implementations. > > > Absolutely, I don't like it either. > > > Henry: > > Do you have a list of issue tracker URLs for the reports that have been lodged over the years, for each of the major browsers? I think it time for us to collectively push the browser vendors to do better by X.509 and TLS re. UI/UX. yes, you can find them here: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf%2Bssl/Clients > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > > > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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