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Re: Logotypes in certificates

Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com> Tue, 20 March 2001 00:56 UTC

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> Adding some sort of visual identifier, such as a company logo to a
> certificate and displaying this in a prominent place in the browser would
> go a long way to ameliorating this problem.

And what's to prevent the badguy from just copying the info out of a
real cert?  Fear of violating the trademark law?
	/r$

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