Visible Changes

The lynx-cert will add several user visible components and makes additions to some others. We describe each of them in turn.

• Screens presented when retrieving a new CA certificate. [Interactive]
• Screens presented when contacting a site with a certificate which is not signed by any trusted certificate authority. [Interactive]
• Screens presented when creating a new personal certificate request. [Interactive]
• Screens presented when retrieving a new personal certificate. [Informational] A brief alert message will be displayed when a new certificate is successfully received and stored. If we do not have the corresponding private key, a screen will come up to explain the situation.
• Screens presented when performing certificate management. [Interactive]
• An alert message will be presented when entering secured web space. [Informational]
• The Information Page (=). An SSL secured connection now displays additional information regarding the connection.

The design of these screens attempts to stay consistent with the lynx interface. We have also used Netscape Navigator 3.01 as a reference for what information to supply and how to present it. We now provide a more explicit description of the new interfaces.

 
• New Certificate Authority process
• Certificates Signed by Untrusted Authorities
• New Personal Certificate generation process
• New Personal Certificate receiving process
• Certificate Management Interface
• The Information Page