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<p><font color="red"><b> More Info About Project</b></font><hr /> | |||
Modern browsers tend to communicate with their end users on various security aspects of their ongoing operations. Such communication clarifies certain errors and warning in web sites user visiting and warns users of potential risks such as invalid SSL certificates, unsecured cookies, etc. However, such security information is largely dispersed at present in the browsers. To check security information of a website, users of Firefox need to search multiple data sources in the browser such as error console, cookie manager, certificate manager, etc. This hinders users from checking security related information for a website. The aim of this project is to build a Firefox add-on that provides security information about a website to advanced users in a single place. | |||
In addition, developing a website that covers all security basis is tricky for developers. However, we believe that if web developers will get security information of their production pages at single place in browser then it will help them to fix security issues in their production pages before releasing them to users. The benefits of this project to Firefox users are thus two-fold: First, advanced users can learn about website security using this tool before deciding whether they can submit their credential to website or not. Second, web developers can use it to read security information of their production pages and identify security issues in their website. | |||
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