From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: using the fringe to indicate good signatures
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:01:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vbbl8n5l.fsf@heart-of-gold.hh.sledj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1xtn8s8.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net>
On Mon, Sep 07 2015, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> 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?
Cry?
More seriously, we could use the indentation space for a similar
indicator, which would allow us some room at an appropriate depth for
each message (but not each part (in the default configuration)).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-08 6:01 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
2015-09-08 6:01 ` David Edmondson [this message]
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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