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Re: New Attack on Secure Browsing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Wed Jul 21 11:30:00 2004
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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:05:58 -0700
To: Aram Perez <aramperez@mac.com>,
Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
On 15 Jul 2004, at 9:36 PM, Aram Perez wrote:
> I'm not sure if PGP deliberately set out to confuse na=EFve users =
since=20
> 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.=20=
PGP has had this on our for a couple of years, now. I vaguely remember=20=
there being one in The Dark Days, but I could be misremembering. This=20
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=20
used it in January of '95. This is before there even was an SSL. That=20
particular icon is the very same one that was used as the tray icon in=20=
some version of PGP or other (we think PGP 7).
We're giving this all due consideration. Would it help if we changed=20
the metal, perhaps from the current four-plane brass to eight-plane=20
steel or even to alpha-channel Jolly Rancher iridescent translucent=20
anodized titanium?
Jon
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