Authenticating logos

RL 'Bob' Morgan rlmorgan at washington.edu
Thu Jan 17 00:58:39 EST 2002


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Carl Ellison wrote:

> Yes, he's trusting the logo.  It could be fake, but the assumption is
> that if it's there for very long, it's less likely to be fake because
> the real logo owner would have had it brought to his attention and he
> would have threatened legal action to get it removed.
>
> ..seems there ought to be something similar in cyberspace...

There is a proposal on precisely this in PKIX-land:

   draft-ietf-pkix-logotypes-00.txt

   This document contains an initial outline of a standard for inclusion
   of logotypes in certificates. The draft includes background
   discussions around different aspects of problems and solutions,
   forming a starting point for the creation of a complete standard.

 - RL "Bob"





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