I'm very pleased to announce that VeriSign is the first Certificate Authority to be issuing EV SSL Certificates in Japan. Last week VeriSign held a press conference in Tokyo to introduce Extended Validation to the Japanese media, and I participated, as evidenced here. You may have noticed some of my postings occurring at very odd hours for me. That would be why.

VeriSign SSL Product Manager Troy Kitch will be presenting on Extended Validation at the AOTA Summit (Authentication and Online Trust Alliance) on April 19 in Boston.

12:30-1:20 Republic Ballroom
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Confident Consumer Connections: Building Trust with Extended Validation Certificates

Learn now the EV SSL certificate program created by the industry wide Certificate Authority/Browser forum is providing ecommerce sites and consumers an enhanced level of trust, boosting user confidence in online transactions. A key session for brand owners and web developers.

If you're going to be at AOTA, don't miss this presentation. Here's your chance to talk...

If you're attending the InfoSec show in Orlando, Florida this week, make sure you swing by the VeriSign booth for an demonstration of Extended Validation SSL Certificates. A couple of our people are over there demoing EV, and they know the product very well, so it's a good opportunity to see the certificates in action and get your questions answered.

If you have Internet Explorer 7, you probably already noticed The SSL Blog has Extended Validation SSL on it. If not, just add an s to the http in the address of the page you're looking at now (or click this link to The SSL Blog if you're lazy), and check it out.

I can't prove it, but I think this makes the VeriSign blogs (which includes The SSL Blog among others) the first ever blogs in the world to be protected with Extended Validation SSL Certificates. Another milestone shattered. ;)