Northern Rock, a major UK lending firm, has deployed EV SSL Certificates. I believe this posting is the most prominent (although certainly not the first) non-US Extended Validation deployment.

I will be speaking at the RSA conference next week in San Francisco, the topic being Extended Validation SSL Certificates. If you'll be at RSA, please come see me speak, and afterward come up and introduce yourself. Our CEO Stratton Sclavos will be presenting one of the keynotes, and VeriSign advanced technologist and fellow blogger Phillip Hallam-Baker will be presenting potential future directions for secure e-commerce and participating on a panel discussion regarding EV SSL.

Tim Callan - Maximizing Trust on the Web: New Extended Validation SSL Certificates and Internet Explorer
Tuesday, February 6. 1:30 pm. Burgundy Room 133.

Stratton Sclavos - Security in the "Any...

I'm pleased to announce that PayPal has rolled out Extended Validation SSL Certificates from VeriSign across the first of its pages. You can see them at:

https://history.paypal.com
https://av.paypal.com

Here are a couple sites you can go to to see Extended Validation in action. Note, to see the Extended Validation SSL interface conventions working today, you need a Windows Vista system with Phishing Filter enabled. After EV Upgrader goes live later this month, you'll be able to see EV certificates on a Windows XP system with IE7.

One site where you can see EV SSL at work today is DebtHelp, a debt and loan consolidation site. The other one, as you might guess, is VeriSign's home page. I'll try to post some screen captures for those of you who don't have Vista yet. Those of you who do will notice that the address bar turns green and to the right of the address bar is the new field, the Security Status Bar, which shows the name of the organization and identifies...