The estimated number of views of the VeriSign Secured Seal has exceeded 80 million per day. That averages over 29 billion views of the VeriSign Secured Seal per year. If we want to say there are 500 million active Internet users in the world, that averages almost 60 views per active user per year, or about five seals viewed per month. Each.

If you missed the very well attended Web seminar on High Assurance SSL, we archived it for you. Now I have a more direct link to the seminar so you don't have to go through all the steps I originally laid out. You can get directly to the High Assurance SSL Certificates seminar as well as a bunch of other VeriSign seminars. At the time of posting mine is about five down on the list. After the seminar you'll want to read the follow-up questions on High Assurance SSL. These links are especially useful if you have a co-worker, let's say, who missed the seminar. Now you can send the link and that co-worker can get the straight story on the big, new developments in SSL.

In April of this year faculty from Harvard and UC Berkeley released a research paper titled "Why Phishing Works." The researchers showed panelists a series of pages from Web sites that would be considered likely phishing targets. Some of these pages were the real thing from the actual sites, and some of them were fraud sites taken from actual recent phishing attacks.

I got some good questions from last week's High Assurance SSL Web seminar. I'll repeat some of the best ones and my replies here.