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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Show green ColorBar for unchecked OpenPGP messages?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-07 1:08:21
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On Friday 06 September 2002 04:53 pm, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> OK, Waldo you are right and that's why I wrote this:
> > >    IIRC the _main_ purpose of the color bar is: let the user clearly
> > > see that there is an HTML message, to give her/him a change of
> > > detecting a fake message _pretending_ to be a signed message.
>
> To sum up: The user must have a chance to see that the message is a 'fake'!
>
> Since the colored table frames and all other content inside the HTML viewer
> can be faked by the sender we show the extra color bar (which is _not_ part
> of the HTML viewer's content): If there _is_ a color bar indicating that
> this ios an HTML message the user should _not_ trust any colored table
> frames since all this can by a fake!
>
> Is there anything wrong in this concept?

So the external colorbar is an indicator of the trusth-worthyness of the 
indicators inside the HTML view?

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org  |   SuSE Labs KDE Developer  |  bastian@suse.com
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