Archive for the 'Web Certificates' Category

Jul 22 2017

Proposed Web Certificate Mental Model

Published by under Web Certificates

 

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/proposed-mental-model-for-certificates/

Jul 17 2017

Facebook, verify your identity for us!

Published by under Web Certificates

If you were a large company, used by millions around the world, wouldn’t you want to verify your identity and hinder look-alike websites from stealing your users’ passwords?

If Twitter can do it, Facebook can too!

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/why-doesnt-facebook-have-an-ev-cert/

Jul 10 2017

Why does it keep changing?

Published by under Web Certificates

Who remembers the green bar?

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/recent-and-continuous-changes/

Jun 26 2017

Mental Models

Published by under Web Certificates

What are mental models and how do they fit in to computer security?

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/visualization-for-mental-models-of-website-certificates/mental-models/

Jun 25 2017

Improving tutorials on web certificates

Published by under Web Certificates

Second Generation Web Certificate Tutorial (currently being tested)

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/visualization-for-mental-models-of-website-certificates/mental-models/1253-2/second-generation/

Jun 25 2017

Building tutorials on web certificates

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First Generation Web Certificate Tutorial

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/visualization-for-mental-models-of-website-certificates/

Jun 07 2017

Can we redesign certificates to make them easier to understand?

Published by under Web Certificates

Would you use a browser extension that provided you with summaries of website identity?

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/an-alternative-interface-for-website-security-certificates/

Jun 01 2017

What is a web certificate?

Published by under Web Certificates

What does that green lock mean next to the URL? Why do some websites have company names before the web address?

https://hotsoft.carleton.ca/hotsoft/projects/web-certificates/