Re: Action Item 18 - understand/visualize the strength of SSL

George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>, 2006-12-04 16:21 +0000:

> We, the  browser developers, have had an ongoing effort to
> reduce the  complexity of indicators and consolidate the
> decision making  process.  We don't want users to have to judge
> if 75% security is  good enough, or if they should go for 80%
> (whatever those mean  anyway).  We need to have a set of
> criteria that enable us to make a  boolean decision.

Regardless of the complexity of the indicators, it ultimately
comes down to any given user making a boolean decision to either
trust a particular site or not.

It seems like the old "as simple as possible, but no simpler"
adage is relevant here. I'd hope that we don't end up taking a
task (looking at set of security data about a given site, and
evaluating it in order to make a trust decision), and trying to
oversimplify it.

  --Mike

Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:52:34 UTC