Closed Bug 63773 Opened 24 years ago Closed 8 years ago

[RFE] display image from X.509 certificates

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement, P4)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Security: UI
Version:
1.0 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: ahc, Unassigned)

Details

Hi All!

We are running a project on trust management and
on improving the Web browser user interface 
regarding security. Presently we try to implement 
a demo with a modified browser but it's really 
hard to find out how best to do it, and we 
wonder wether anyone can give us some advise.

We believe company logos should be part of Web server certificates so
that this certified logo can be 
diplayed by the browser whenever accessing a secure 
cite. We have SW to generate X.509 certificates
containing images (i.e. logos) but we don't know how 
to hook into the browser to extract the image and 
display it.

The options are:

1) Use hooks made available by Microsoft and Netscape 
(and others) for application development.

2) Modify the source code of some open source browser 
such as Mozilla.

Does anybody know how to do this or has anybody 
done something similar?

Cheers
Ajaynath
PSM RFE
Assignee: asa → ddrinan
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Client Library
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Product: Browser → PSM
QA Contact: doronr → junruh
Summary: Browser modification → [RFE] display image from X.509 certificates
Version: other → unspecified
Setting milestone to future.
Priority: -- → P4
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Version: unspecified → 2.0
Mass assigning QA to ckritzer.
QA Contact: junruh → ckritzer
QA Contact: ckritzer → junruh
QA Contact: junruh → bmartin
Mass reassign ddrinan's PSM bugs (with his permission) to nobody
Assignee: ddrinan0264 → nobody
QA Contact: bmartin → nobody
Target Milestone: Future → ---
Product: PSM → Core
QA Contact: nobody → ui
Version: psm2.0 → 1.0 Branch
WONTFIXing, since having images in certs just seems like a way to add more bloat to certs and introduce more attack surface for little benefit.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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