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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Show green ColorBar for unchecked OpenPGP messages?
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-07 6:19:34
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On Saturday 07 September 2002 03:08, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 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?

Indeed, Waldo, so it is.  :-D    (even if that sounds funny)

The colorbar it the indicator whether the mail is HTML or not: it is needed
since it could be an HTML mail that 'looks' exactly like a good-verified
signed text/plain message or something like that.

Cheers,
Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz@kde.org>
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