> I like this proposal very much. I can well imagine that we display 3 > icons and if you click on any of them, you'll get the detailed > information. But I'd suggest also to add the UID of the sender in the > message reader pane if the signature can be verified.
A couple of thoughts -- First, although my proposal used "Privacy", "Authenticity", and "Identity", icons would probably be better -- I didn't use icons because I couldn't think of good icons for the three concepts. Evolution likes to use a wax seal to denote a digital signature. I don't like that icon; wax seals aren't just used to sign documents, but they're also used to *seal* documents, to prevent unauthorized people from viewing them. This is just bad iconography. Iconography is a big thing. I would like to see icons instead of "Privacy", "Authenticity", and "Identity", but I don't know what those icons would be. Second, I don't think the sender's UID needs to be displayed *if* the sender's email address matches an email address on the certificate. If we declare a message is authentic and identity confirmed, users are going to assume the identity in the From: field is what's confirmed. If the email address in the From: field is different from all the email addresses on the signing certificate, though, then we definitely need to make that information immediately available to the user. Third, iconography lends itself very nicely to binary states. If we're confirming something, the icon is showed in full color. If we're not, the icon is grayed out. I don't know how we'd do a trinary state icon. We probably could, but -- I don't know how. Fourth, we should also consider users with visual disabilities. Some users are color-blind, others can't see at all. I think if we were to put descriptive text in tooltips this would be sufficient to handle our visually impaired users.
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