293020 - Non "Persona Validated" certs give no warning

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Alaric]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

Emails signed with certificates issued from CA's that don't validate the 
persona of the person sending the email, or certs that have "Persona not 
validated" in the cert should be should be flagged in someway. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a non-validated cert from http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-
products/free-email-certificate.html
2. Sign an email with the new cert, send it to a test email account.
3. Look at the signed email, there is no indication that the cert is not 
validated, not even looking into the cert.

Actual Results:  
The signed email is not flagged in anyway.

Expected Results:  
It should be flagged in such a way that the receiver knows that the persona has 
not been valided, I think  this flagging should be at least as obvious as 
an "invalid signature" flag. But the user should have the ability to turn this 
off for people, thus moving the cert to a "trusted people" store

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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