TrustBar is a FireFox extension that already (and for a while already) implements your proposal... Namely, it supports both `petnaming` of a site, i.e. to assign a name (or, with TrustBar, a logo) to a site, and also display of the name of the organization and of the CA, like IE 7 (and future browsers). It is the result of secure usability study by Ahmad Jbara and myself, and has some other mechanisms, including random `exercise training attacks` to help users stay trained to watch for the name/logo of the site. (I must admit that this mechanism is now set for too frequent `exercise attacks`, we will improve this in our next release very soon, but you can also reduce or eliminate this using the user interface of course).
There are some differences in the way TrustBar and Petname extensions handle the `petnaming` aspect; of course, I think what we do is more correct, and Tyler (Petname developer) disagrees... we use the anti-fraud forum to discuss such issues, join us if interested.
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TrustBar is a FireFox extension that already (and for a while already) implements your proposal... Namely, it supports both `petnaming` of a site, i.e. to assign a name (or, with TrustBar, a logo) to a site, and also display of the name of the organization and of the CA, like IE 7 (and future browsers). It is the result of secure usability study by Ahmad Jbara and myself, and has some other mechanisms, including random `exercise training attacks` to help users stay trained to watch for the name/logo of the site. (I must admit that this mechanism is now set for too frequent `exercise attacks`, we will improve this in our next release very soon, but you can also reduce or eliminate this using the user interface of course).
There are some differences in the way TrustBar and Petname extensions handle the `petnaming` aspect; of course, I think what we do is more correct, and Tyler (Petname developer) disagrees... we use the anti-fraud forum to discuss such issues, join us if interested.
Best, Amir Herzberg