[issue109] pineentry's "please verify certificate" dialog is confusing
David Faure <[email protected]>
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New submission from David Faure <[email protected]>: Context: when reading the mail "Fwd: Re: [Bug 74927] selecting encryption algorithm...." from Marc Mutz on ae-intern, from Thursday 04/03/2004, I get a prompt by pineentry. It says: "Please verify that the certificate [...] TrustCenter [...] Hamburg has the fingerprint: [...]". And the buttons are [Correct] [No]. To an end-user, this message is quite confusing (how would I contact TrustCenter to ask them for a fingerprint?), but there's little that can be done about that, I suppose. However the usability problem is the buttons: pressing No could either mean "I know for sure that this isn't correct" or "No idea, ask me later". One doesn't feel safe pressing "No" in such a case, so one would often press yes without knowing, I'm afraid... Suggestion: this dialog should have a "Cancel" button (which is often understood as the safest action, and which here has the meaning "no idea, ask me again later, don't trust this certificate meanwhile"). Then maybe "No" should be "Incorrect" for symmetry and clarity. ---------- messages: 478 nosy: david priority: minor bug status: unread title: pineentry's "please verify certificate" dialog is confusing topic: pinentry ______________________________________________________ Aegypten issue tracker <[email protected]> <https://intevation.de/roundup/aegypten/issue109> ______________________________________________________