New Attack on Secure Browsing
Jon Callas
jon at callas.org
Mon Jul 19 17:05:58 EDT 2004
On 15 Jul 2004, at 9:36 PM, Aram Perez wrote:
> I'm not sure if PGP deliberately set out to confuse naïve users since
> their
> logo has been the padlock for a while. Many web sites have their logo
> displayed on the address bar (and tab) when you go to there site, see
> http://www.yahoo.com or http://www.google.com. Maybe Jon can answer the
> question.
>
(Sent from this account, since I am subscribed from here.)
This is a favicon -- a logo icon for the site. Lots of sites use them.
PGP has had this on our for a couple of years, now. I vaguely remember
there being one in The Dark Days, but I could be misremembering. This
is the first bit of confusion I've heard about it.
PGP's logo icon has been a padlock at least since the O'Reilly book
used it in January of '95. This is before there even was an SSL. That
particular icon is the very same one that was used as the tray icon in
some version of PGP or other (we think PGP 7).
We're giving this all due consideration. Would it help if we changed
the metal, perhaps from the current four-plane brass to eight-plane
steel or even to alpha-channel Jolly Rancher iridescent translucent
anodized titanium?
Jon
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