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

On 2007-12-16 19:08:36 +0000, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> Sounds like a potential rathole to me,
> S.

+1
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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>






> 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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > First - In order to draft this section I believe that WSC needs to
> > define trust. I looked around a bit - did not see anything.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Bill D.
> > 
> > wdoyle@mitre.org <mailto:wdoyle@mitre.org>
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Received on Sunday, 16 December 2007 19:16:14 UTC