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Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 1 comment

With the rush for sites to deploy their EV SSL Certificates and get the green address bar, I'm running out of ways to say, "Hey, such-and-such an important site has put up EV." Deploys, goes live with, goes green, I've done them all.

In this case we're going with has, and the Web property is Hotmail. Hotmail, of course, is a Microsoft property and therefore part of the Windows Live/MSN family of sites. And the EV provider Microsoft has chosen to go with is VeriSign.

DebtHelp case study published

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Regular readers of The SSL Blog will remember that DebtHelp.com was the first site apart from VeriSign to implement EV SSL Certificates. You will also remember that DebtHelp measured the results of deploying EV and determined that the green bars had raised conversions by 11% with a 16,000% ROI.

We have now published a full case study on DebtHelp's experience with EV SSL. Be sure to check it out.

Larry Seltzer on .bank and EV

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

I never got around to blogging this post, but it deserves mention. Apologies for that. Been a little busy.

You may know there's an idea to create a new TLD called .bank. The idea is that it would only be available to banks, making phishing more difficult. In my opinion it's a miniscule incremental improvement (among other problems, major banks aren't going to stop doing business on their old TLDs for many years, if ever, and consumers aren't going to stop trusting these TLDs for the same amount of time). eWeek editor Larry Seltzer rightly points out that if you're going to put indications of trustworthiness into the browser, a nice green bar and an EV SSL Certificate are probably the way to go.

Travel takes off with EV

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Excuse the newspaper-headline-style pun, but I'm running out of ways to say, "Such and such a humongo site has put EV live." In this case you may already know that online travel leaders such as Travelocity and Opodo along with others like Alaska Airlines have already gone live with EV SSL Certificates.

And you may remember that I encouraged you to contact your own favorite airline and...

Larry Seltzer writes about the Firefox EV plug in

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

If you've been reading The SSL Blog recently you know that Firefox 3 will support EV and that VeriSign recently released an EV SSL plug in for Firefox. Well known security editor Larry Seltzer has this to say about the VeriSign Firefox plug in to support EV SSL.

This ain't just your online bank's EV cert anymore

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

The deployments of Extended Validation SSL are fast and furious now. I'll try to make some time in the next few days to write up a bunch of the new names that have put up EV SSL Certificates. Today I'd like to highlight Blue Cross for the province of Alberta. As I mentioned in my last post, EV is a worldwide phenomenon, and you will notice that this site is an example of that. However, I'm more intereted in the fact that Blue Cross is not a bank or e-commerce site, which describes the earliest adopters of Extended Validation. In this case it's a leading health care site. Health care information is highly confidential, and people take great care to keep it that way. Health care sites are also obvious targets for phishing attacks aimed at the personally identifiable information that enabled identity fraud...

Leading Firefox security developer on EV interface plans

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

I've mentioned in the past that Firefox is moving forward on incorporating support for EV SSL into its next release. Firefox security interface designer Johnathan Nightingale has written a decent amount about his ideas for the Firefox 3 security interface, of which EV is an important piece. You can wander around his blog (as linked above) and find many things to read about usability and interface design. I'll point out a few of them here.

Johnathan's slide deck for his recent presentation at the OSCON open source summit.

A recent blog entry that explains the proposed Firefox EV interface and...

More banks live with EV

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

A couple more major US regional banks have gone live with EV SSL from VeriSign. Bank of the West and Sovereign Bank both are proudly displaying their green badges. Congratulations to both of them.

Over 1000 VeriSign EV certificates deployed

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

According to the most recent Netcraft SSL Survey, sites have deployed over 1000 EV SSL Certificates from VeriSign. Netcraft crawls the Web and reports on the SSL Certificates it detects. 88% of the EV certificates Netcraft discovered in its most recent crawl were from VeriSign.

Many leading sites deploying EV SSL

Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

It's not surprising that the pace of deployment of EV SSL Certificates is increasing. Here are some of the more noteworthy of the many sites that have gone live with green bars from VeriSign since the last time I wrote on this topic:

Deutsche Postbank, which announced its intention to support EV in February, has now deployed EV SSL. So has its fellow German bank, .comdirect.

In the e-commerce world we've seen deployments by...

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