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Does anybody remember a project called "Perspectives"? It was a Firefox plugin that would verify your certificates and handshakes were the same as the ones othe
by Mizza 7y ago
Does anybody remember a project called "Perspectives"? It was a Firefox plugin that would verify your certificates and handshakes were the same as the ones other users were getting. Cool idea.
- c0nducktr 7y agoYeah, it didn't really seem to take off but I had it installed for a while. The site is still up. https://perspectives-project.org https://perspectives-project.org
- kekebo 7y agoThe addon appears to be missing though https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/
- pabs3 7y agoThe addon cannot work any longer because since the XUL to WebExtensions transition Firefox no longer allows addons to make decisions about the validity of https certificates. This killed off Perspectives and a number of other addons implementing alternate trust models. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435951 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435951 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489080 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489080
- c0nducktr 7y agoI hope the functionality could be added back with an API. Honestly I had forgot all about that addon until Mizza mentioned it, but I remember being so impressed by the idea back when I first learned about it. I wish we could bring it back.
- pabs3 7y agoI'd suggest subscribing to the Mozilla bugs about this to get notified if that ever happens.
- zxcmx 7y agoI think of CT as a large scale deployment of basically the same idea.