Re: Improving Authentication on the Internet

2005-05-09 Thread Duane
Gervase Markham wrote: > On the 17th of this month, at the invitation of Comodo, the major CAs > and browser vendors (including mozilla.org) are having a meeting in New > York to discuss some of the issues surrounding the future of SSL and > trust on the Internet. What CAs were/are invited to atte

Improving Authentication on the Internet

2005-05-09 Thread Gervase Markham
On the 17th of this month, at the invitation of Comodo, the major CAs and browser vendors (including mozilla.org) are having a meeting in New York to discuss some of the issues surrounding the future of SSL and trust on the Internet. As a way of working out my thinking on this, I've written a p

Re: Allow/Disallow Java applets per site

2005-05-09 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: There's a common comment that it's a good thing that FF only has one security zone, which removes the risk of priveledge escalation attacks. I couldn't help thinking today that Firefox in fact indeed has two security zone, and that the recent problems are privilege es