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Extended Validation SSL, More Secure or Just a Racket?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-with-revenue-generation dept.

Nalfeshnee writes "The Register is reporting on the new 'Extended Validation SSL' cert currently being touted by Verisign. Vista and IE7 will be using this but not, apparently, Firefox anytime soon. For this the Verisign Product Marketing Director Tim Callan squarely blames the Firefox dev team for 'not keeping up' with their new technology. However, the whole thing just seems to be a way for Verisign to enjoy ridiculous markup on selling 'more secure' certs."

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  1. Fund raising idea for firefox by NaCh0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mozilla.org should get into the SSL certificate reselling business and set the location bar to green when one of the mozilla signed certs is present. Verisign could then have the option of paying a royalty to mozilla.org for each extended certificate if they want green URL bars too.