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right, so if I have £15, I can pay £15 to Companies House to start a company, and then I can authorise anything. EV offers nothing over normal certs, other tha

• nailer 11y ago
  You can authorise a certificate only for the company you just created, which is most definitely not 'anything'
  • sbierwagen 11y ago
    What stops a Russian EV cert vendor for authorizing a EV cert for impostor company Example LLC, when the real corp is Example Inc?
    • nailer 11y ago
      > What stops a Russian EV cert vendor for authorizing a EV cert for impostor company Example LLC, when the real corp is Example Inc? - The Registry of Companies & Intellectual Property in Russia must accept Example LLC as a valid business name which may be difficult if Example Inc was well known. - The issuing CA must manually inspect all requested domain names in the EV cert and ensure there is no phishing attempt. A certificate request for the hostname 'example.com.example.ru' would be rejected. Depending on how well known Example Inc is - eg, say they were Bank of America - even 'example.ru' may be rejected. - If for some reason this failed and a certificate for the identically named Russian company was issued, it would read 'Example LLC [RU]' in the address bar rather than 'Example Inc [US]'