Re: HTTPOnly cookies specification

2008-12-12 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello there, On Friday 12 December 2008, Bil Corry wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote on 12/12/2008 11:23 AM: > > Is this an official IETF group? It seems odd that its list is not on the > > IETF mailing list server. > > We're not officially affiliated with any group, although the plan is to > move it

Re: "TLS, if available" in Thunderbird

2008-09-19 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Saturday 20 September 2008, Ben Bucksch wrote: > The important part is "treat 'TLS, if available' like unsecured in the > UI", though. We can't say "Automatic" or anything else that suggests > that people may be secure (because they not, even if STARTTLS works at a > given moment, because it may

Re: "TLS, if available" in Thunderbird

2008-09-18 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Thursday 18 September 2008, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > The options should read : > [ ] require STARTTLS > [ ] disable STARTTLS > > With none of the two enabled by default. > > Getting "require STARTTLS" automatically enabled if the initial > connexion was succesfully in STARTTLS mode would be

Re: SSL UI in Firefox 3

2008-05-20 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Gervase Markham wrote: > Right. I can see how we are getting the message out to sites about EV > adoption, but I'm concerned about how we are going to tell 150 million > people that they need to check identity when doing financial stuff. IMHO: Implementing a ready and easy

Re: Accepting certificates

2007-09-02 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Friday 31 August 2007, Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Stefanos, > > If you'[re really worried about students being MITM attacked, then you > might ask why the University has so many https sites using invalid certs > which necessitate the users getting this dialog in the first place. > > Don't worry, in

Accepting certificates

2007-08-30 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello there, As you already know (:-)) when firefox visits an SSL enabled site and gets a certificate that cannot be verified, asks the user about the action it should take. The current actions are: Accept Permanentely (#1), Accept for Session (#2), Don't Accept (#3), having #2 as the presele