Conference paper

Appeared in: Trust, privacy and security in digital business

Editor list: Fischer-Hübner, S.; Katsikas, S.; Quirchmayr, G.

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 1-16

ISBN: 978-3-642-32286-0

eISBN: 978-3-642-32287-7

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32287-7_1

Conference: 9th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2012)

Title of series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Number in series: 7449

Abstract: 

Visualizing security status information in web browsers has been a complex matter ever since. With novel security standards getting into wide spread use and entering the browser, this task becomes even more complex. This paper addresses this issue by analyzing the current state of the art in browser support for DNSSEC. As a result of this analysis, it is emphasized that the visual cues used for TLS and the ones for DNSSEC are not unambiguous and hence are more confusing than beneficial. An improvement is suggested, that relies on the idea of visualizing security services instead of security standard specifics. The paper contributes an icon set following this idea and presents evaluation results obtained by a user study.

Harvard Citation style: Hirsch, T., Lo Iacono, L. and Wechsung, I. (2012) How Much Network Security Must Be Visible in Web Browsers?, in Fischer-Hübner, S., Katsikas, S. and Quirchmayr, G. (eds.) Trust, privacy and security in digital business. Berlin: Springer. pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32287-7_1

APA Citation style: Hirsch, T., Lo Iacono, L., & Wechsung, I. (2012). How Much Network Security Must Be Visible in Web Browsers?. In Fischer-Hübner, S., Katsikas, S., & Quirchmayr, G. (Eds.), Trust, privacy and security in digital business. (pp. 1-16). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32287-7_1