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Re: Authenticating logos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RL 'Bob' Morgan)
Thu Jan 17 15:01:36 2002
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:58:39 -0800 (PST)
From: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu>
Reply-To: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu>
To: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Carl Ellison wrote:
> Yes, he's trusting the logo. It could be fake, but the assumption is
> that if it's there for very long, it's less likely to be fake because
> the real logo owner would have had it brought to his attention and he
> would have threatened legal action to get it removed.
>
> ..seems there ought to be something similar in cyberspace...
There is a proposal on precisely this in PKIX-land:
draft-ietf-pkix-logotypes-00.txt
This document contains an initial outline of a standard for inclusion
of logotypes in certificates. The draft includes background
discussions around different aspects of problems and solutions,
forming a starting point for the creation of a complete standard.
- RL "Bob"
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