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. > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/**blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen> > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/**112399767740508618350/about<https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about> > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/**kidehen<http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen> > > > > > >
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