In that case the question mark needs to be bigger. I too was scratching my head over the new icon, and I work on an OCSP responder for a living!
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:36, Dan Winship wrote: > On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 09:55, Mike Leckey, Jr. wrote: > > I received a signed message that I did not have the key for. The small > > padlock was in a locked state, implying a good signature. > > The question-mark in the icon is supposed to imply "unknown". > > > If the message cannot be proven authentic, how about making the first > > smaller lock broken as well as the second larger one w/details? > > It doesn't try to verify it until you click. > > The issue is that the previous completely-static PGP verification UI was > trivially spoofable by just sending someone an HTML message containing > the right graphics. > > In the new system, you don't get any information about whether the sig > is good or not until you click on the lock, which is something that > can't be emulated with the parts of HTML that GtkHTML supports. > > -- Dan > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Richard Ziegler Release Engineer / ClearCase Administrator (617) 503-0442 CertCo, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
