The organisation which oversees Web standards such as HTML has set the Web Security Context Working Group three tasks: to build consensus around what information people need from browsers in order to understand their ’security context’; to find innovative ways to present this information
and raise awareness; and to suggest ways to make browsers less susceptible to spoofing of user interfaces that are used to convey critical security information to end users.
‘When I’m browsing the Web, I want my browser to help me understand who really is the owner of a Web page,’ said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web. ‘There is much deployed and proven security technology, but we now need to connect it all the way through to the Web user. A Web browser acts on my behalf as I surf the Web, and I need more help from it to avoid being spoofed.’
W3C said that the establishment of the working group was prompted by a successful workshop with a host of leading Internet businesses, including AOL, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Yahoo!, and a leading financial organisation. The workshop showed a significant interest in secure browser interfaces and in identifying data required from content providers to enable those interfaces.
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