EV Plugin
Alaric Dailey
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132017-page,1/article.html Verisign
has released a plugin to paint the Firefox address bar green when
encountering an EV cert. An interesting comment is also here:
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000927.html
/ Verisign's Tim Callan says that more than 500 Web sites, including
sites run by eBay's PayPal division and ING Group, have now completed EV
SSL certification. Nearly 90 percent of them are certified by Verisign,
said Callan, a director of product marketing with the company's SSL group./
Since the majority of the issued EV certs come from Verisign I think the
correct approach to EV is indeed via their own plugin. Anybody
interested can install the plugin which isn't something which should be
in the mainstream browser. Also Comodo CA has released a similar plugin
some time ago called "VerificationEngine" (
http://linuxpr.com/releases/8481.html )... But what Mozilla concerns,
this issue can be looked at as resolved. Instead I suggest to follow the
proposal of different verification levels which Eddy from StartCom made
earlier and bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380775
which should "Make general page of certificate viewer easier to
understand"...
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