[1194] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape's little key icon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth I. Rich)
Sun Nov 26 18:44:41 1995
From: "Seth I. Rich" <seth@hygnet.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 15:46:42 -0500 (EST)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> > Ok, perhaps this is a FAQ item, but I don't recall having read it
> > anywhere. When I open up Netscape, which is admittedly infrequently, I
> > see that little key icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. I'm
> > told that when it's a solid key with teethies, that means you're talking
> > to a "secure server" (if that phrase has any meaning outside of marketing
> > materials).
Hm. So judging from what I've been sent and what I've skimmed, the
iconic representation of `You are talking to somewhere you can trust' is
determined not by the site to which a potentially insecure transaction
will be sent, but by the URL from which the form was sent.
... Hm. Is it a logical deduction that if I've received a page from site
X, that the next server I'll access will also be X? Isn't that the
implication of this icon?
Seth
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