For those of you trying to make sense of where all this is coming from, here is an article from HP Labs which touches on the foundation behind the petnames toolbar, which is just one of the proposed anti-phishing tools for Mozilla.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2005/apr-jun/virussafe.html Ping and Tyler work on one of the most advanced usability / security projects on the planet. Their day job is to take Windows programs and make them safe. They've done that and demo'd it, at least in research conditions, I've not myself seen the demo, but it has opened the eyes of those who have. This experience - and the help of all the team and indeed the entire capabilities community - went into the petnames toolbar. This all occurred over on the caps forums before it got to mozilla, so it's already been through a trial-by-fire by about a dozen of the most advanced and skeptical security thinkers out there. iang -- Advances in Financial Cryptography: https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000458.html _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list Mozilla-security@mozilla.org http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
