Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : perspectives-extension Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Dan Wendlandt, Ethan Jackson, Ciprian Craciun * URL : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Iceweasel/Firefox extension to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks
Perspectives is a new approach to help clients securely identify Internet servers in order to avoid "man-in-the-middle" attacks. Perspectives is simple and cheap compared to existing approaches because it automatically builds a robust database of network identities using lightweight network probing by "network notaries" located in multiple vantage points across the Internet.
This package is an extension to Iceweasel/Firefox browser that contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website.
-- Jakub Wilk
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