Status: Unconfirmed Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc New issue 17929 by jpntiger.wave: new feature request - http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17929
Is there an opportunity/interest to support a scientific, research and non-profit communities to have MODE where the browser Trust extended list of Certificate Authorities. ? Problem:- not having the self signed Root Certificate Authority in the browser, is a huge problem for Science and research communities. These folks are not a small group of people; they spread across the world (i think may be few in south pole too) and rely on distributed computing resources for their daily work. The user experience with the browser became terrible; it used to be a certificate popup asking for the user to confirm; now the browsers are asking for adding an exception; and some doesn't give any option at all, they just give you a dead page. Proposed Solution:- proposed solution could be 'the browser can be run in different types of MODES/PROFILES'. - one mode could be FINANCE/MONEY mode where the browser only trusts the set of certificates(i.e the list of Root CA certificates that are now in the browser) - other mode could be non FINANCE/MONEY mode where the browser has the different set of list of Root CA certificates which include the previous list plus the 'scientific/ community' Root CA certificates. The money transactions are simply prohibited in this mode. Or when the money/ fund transaction happens the browser automatically switches back to the 'FINANCE' mode. I am not sure if the browser can detect these type of transaction. Any one has a better solution? The Self Signed Root CA certificate distribution doesn't work; unless it comes with the browser. So the Trusted Root CA certificates has to come with the browser. thanks -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
