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* The EV guidelines removes proprietary procedures by current certification authorities and provides a unified standard. | |||
* The EV guidelines proposes higher validation of the organization and subscriber of the certificate. | |||
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Revision as of 22:54, 12 February 2007
Introduction
The goal of this document is, to assist current discussions about Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates as proposed by the CA/Browser forum. Here we try to collect, structure and organize various aspects, arguments and solutions concerning the proposed guidelines and what this means for Mozilla at large and the Firefox Browser in particular.
Discussions are held mostly at the Mozilla Dev-Security mailing list. Before editing this page it is suggested to use the talk/discussion page and propose the addition/change.
Arguments
Pro
- The EV guidelines removes proprietary procedures by current certification authorities and provides a unified standard.
- The EV guidelines proposes higher validation of the organization and subscriber of the certificate.
Contra
Proposals
14:38, 12 February 2007 (PST)