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EV have their place in the ecosystem, they are just useless for websites. You still need them to properly sign binaries for Windows or get your logo showing in
by Sytten 5y ago
EV have their place in the ecosystem, they are just useless for websites.
You still need them to properly sign binaries for Windows or get your logo showing in Gmail (BIMI), which are legit usecases where you want to verify the identity of the company.
The alternative to that is each business setup their own verification mechanism similar to what Apple does and you have to pay each one a good chunk of money. (Arguably the EV certs are not cheap either).
- bombcar 5y agoHow does that help (much) in the case where some rando can get an EV for "Stripe, Inc." The idea behind EV was almost a good one - but you'd need a central authority that can say "This Nissan is the Nissan you're expecting" which is nearly an impossible problem at scale (see https://nissan.com https://nissan.com vs https://www.nissanusa.com https://www.nissanusa.com). What has happened is Google is the central authority for 90% of the web - you search the company and click the link (which maybe is an ad to a scam site?).