Re: EV SSL Certs

2011-09-12 Thread Coy Hile
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Coy Hile wrote: >> As an academic aside, exactly what would one set on his (internal) >> root CA so that internally-trusted certs signed by that CA would show >> up as EV certs? > > This is not possible without

Re: EV SSL Certs

2011-09-12 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Coy Hile wrote: > As an academic aside, exactly what would one set on his (internal) > root CA so that internally-trusted certs signed by that CA would show > up as EV certs? This is not possible without changing browser source code and recompiling (or debugging/e

Re: Re: EV SSL Certs

2011-09-12 Thread Cody Rose
On Monday, September 12, 2011 12:08:56 PM Coy Hile wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow > > > > wrote: > >> what's the real benefit of an EV cert? (to the service owner, not the > >> CA, the CA benefit is pretty clearly $$) > > > > The benefit is to the end user. > > Th

Re: EV SSL Certs

2011-09-12 Thread Coy Hile
> > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow > wrote: > >> what's the real benefit of an EV cert? (to the service owner, not the >> CA, the CA benefit is pretty clearly $$) > > The benefit is to the end user. > They see a green address bar  with the company's name displayed. > > Yeah, c