Re: Java: Helping the world build bigger idiots

2005-09-22 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Furlong writes: On a related note, I've worked a bit with avionics and embedded medical software. The certification requirements for those bits of critical code might be helpful for crypto programming. Not quite. The name of the game is information

Re: Defending users of unprotected login pages with TrustBar 0.4.9.93

2005-09-22 Thread Amir Herzberg
Adam Back wrote: I would think it would be safer to block the site, or provide a warning dialog. Before we do the first redirection, we do ask the user. However, since TrustBar is really part of our research on secure usability, we are aware that asking the user is a very problematic

RE: Defending users of unprotected login pages with TrustBar 0.4.9.93

2005-09-22 Thread Axley, Jason
snip David Wagner writes: One thing that web sites could do to help is to always make https://www.foo.com work just as well as http://www.foo.com, and then browser plug-ins could simply translate http://www.foo.com - https://www.foo.com for all sensitive sites. Of course, web site