Re: Can'somebody tell me why SSL2 is still by default

2005-06-21 Thread Nelson B
Julien Pierre wrote: RFC 2817 has serious security implications for clients, because it does not specify a distinct URL scheme for TLS upgrade. Browsers are left without a means to enforce encryption on the connection. It is up to the server to upgrade the connection to TLS - or not . I

Cooperating and communicating on antiphising / improved security indicators

2005-06-21 Thread Amir Herzberg
There has been an interesting and important debate on this list on the `Mozilla security process`. The discussion focused on improved security indicators, specifically to help protect against spoofed web site attacks (including phishing, pharming, etc.). This is also one of my main research

Re: Criteria for an antiphishing tool

2005-06-21 Thread Amir Herzberg
I think all five criteria below are correct. I also believe we will meet all of them in our next release (in testing) of TrustBar, and meet almost all even in our current release (which has many downloads, happy users). Here are details: Heikki Toivonen wrote: Ka-Ping Yee wrote: 1. We

Re: Installing Trust Bar

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Vincent van Rantwijk
Doug Ludy wrote: I am new at this, but have been following the discussion of phishing at the n.p.m.security newsgroup for the past month. I would like to try the trustbar extension but when I try to download the program from http://trustbar.mozdev.org I cannot do so because I have

Need help w/programmatic installation of Client Certs

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Stokes
I'm new to the Netscape/Firefox/Mozilla platform and I've been tasked with providing a programmatic method for our customers to use to install client certificates. I'm looking for suggestions on how to approach a solution. Java applet? Extension? Plug-in? I'm stuck on how to do this. We're

Re: Need help w/programmatic installation of Client Certs

2005-06-21 Thread Duane
Mike Stokes wrote: I'm new to the Netscape/Firefox/Mozilla platform and I've been tasked with providing a programmatic method for our customers to use to install client certificates. I'm looking for suggestions on how to approach a solution. Java applet? Extension? Plug-in? I'm stuck on

Re: Need help w/programmatic installation of Client Certs

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Stokes
Duane, Thanks for the reply, but I'm a little confused. I couldn't find anything on your site that explained how you've automated the cert installation for client certs. It's late and I'm a little short on sleep so forgive me if I'm just being dense. :) Duane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in