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I respectfully disagree. I recently bought an EV certificate from VeriSign and, apart from some paperwork, the only "extended" validation was a two minute phone
by bnoordhuis 16y ago
I respectfully disagree. I recently bought an EV certificate from VeriSign and, apart from some paperwork, the only "extended" validation was a two minute phone call from a VeriSign rep. Well worth the EUR 575,- :/
- petercooper 16y agoWhat I mean is the "green bar" or "green text" in the Web browser. I'm no SSL expert (though not a novice either) but I do like seeing that appear when logging into online banking or PayPal. If it didn't come up that way, I'd be immediately suspicious.
- sirclueless 16y agoI assume they verified that you are in fact a citizen of a first-world country, possibly with an actual company that pays its taxes. That's basically all the trust an average site needs. It's not so much that your website can now be trusted to never do anything nasty, but if it ever does there is someone to hold accountable.
- carl_ 16y agoThere will of been at minimum checking for address and phone listings for the company (yell or scoot for UK EV's) in addition to the human telephone validation for signer and approver.
- carl_ 16y agoDifferent applications for EV certs will be required to provide certain additional information and all validations must pass CAB guidelines. We personally use Comodo for our 'cheap' certificates as we get massive buy discounts and GlobalSign for EV as they've have a 2048 bit default root since the start.