http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html We have developed an extension to the popular Firefox browser

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html We have developed an extension to the popular Firefox browser that contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website. The extension provides two primary benefits: 1. If you connect to a website with an untrusted (e.g.,self-signed certificate)*, Firefox will give you a very nasty security error and force you to manually install an exception. Perspectives can detect whether a self-signed certificate is valid, and automatically overrides the annoying security error page if it is safe to do so. 2. It is possible that an attacker may trick one of the many Certificate Authorities trusted by Firefox into incorrectly issuing a certificate for a trusted website. Perspectives can also detect this attack and will warn you if things look suspicious.