Re: ACTION-318: Draft a new subsection to section 7 discussing the mixing of trusted/untrusted information in the UI

Sounds like a potential rathole to me,
S.

Dan Schutzer wrote:
> I agree we should have section on trust with trust defined
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> *From:* public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org] *On Behalf Of *Doyle, Bill
> *Sent:* Friday, December 14, 2007 2:54 PM
> *To:* public-wsc-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* ACTION-318: Draft a new subsection to section 7 discussing
> the mixing of trusted/untrusted information in the UI
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> First - In order to draft this section I believe that WSC needs to
> define trust. I looked around a bit - did not see anything.
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> Second - Once we have trust defined - what attributes of a HTTPs
> session are considered trusted and available to be used in a secure
> section of UI?
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> From what I can tell the only attributes that can be trusted in a
> standard X.509 cert is CA related attributes. A user review of a
> standard X.509 certs is required in order to be able to "trust" it.
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> Cheers
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> Bill D.
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> wdoyle@mitre.org <mailto:wdoyle@mitre.org>
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Received on Sunday, 16 December 2007 19:09:24 UTC