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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: using the fringe to indicate good signatures
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 18:50:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1xtn8s8.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mvxmxfwl.fsf@heart-of-gold.hh.sledj.net>

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On Thu 2015-08-20 09:12:26 -0400, David Edmondson wrote:
> After listening to bremner, dkg et al. from Heidelberg, I threw together
> a quick patch to see how we might indicate signature validity in the
> fringe. The intention is to prompt more discussion - this code is not
> ready to ship.

> The patch is attached. The result looks something like:
>     http://dme.org/data/images/notmuch-signed-fringe.png

I like the basic idea of this, thanks for putting it together.  It's
good to put security indicators in a region of the UI that the message
content cannot modify or spoof.

What do we think should be done if there are multiple nested signatures?

     --dkg

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-07 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-20 13:12 using the fringe to indicate good signatures David Edmondson
2015-09-07 22:50 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor [this message]
2015-09-08  6:01   ` David Edmondson
2015-09-08  6:43     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2015-09-08  9:53       ` David Edmondson
2015-09-08 18:00         ` Tomi Ollila

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