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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