I see that Chrome already has some support for EV SSL Certificates - for HTTPS sites that it recognizes as EV, Chrome displays the company name in green text in the address bar. I have a number of related questions...
1. Do Google, as a browser creator, intend to join the CA/Browser Forum (http://www.cabforum.org) ? 2. How can a CA get their Root Certificate i) added to Chrome's list of Trusted Root Certificates, and ii) trusted for EV in Chrome? What are the technical requirements, audit requirements, etc? Are these instructions published anywhere? 3. Chrome on Windows appears to rely on the certificates found in the Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Store, but has its own list of EV Policy OIDs (in net/base/ev_root_ca_metadata.cc). Having done that, why didn't you use the EV Policy OID metadata built in to the Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Store instead of creating your own list? 4. How did you decide which CAs' EV Policy OIDs to add to the current version of ev_root_ca_metadata.cc? It looks suspiciously like Mozilla's list, but with those Root Certificates not also present in the Microsoft Root Certificate Program removed. Am I right? 5. What Root Certificates will Chrome on Mac and Linux trust, since the Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Store is Windows-only? Why didn't you use Mozilla NSS's Root Certificate DB instead, since NSS is already cross-platform? (And then, why not use Mozilla PSM's list of EV Policy OIDs instead?) 6. The EV UIs in IE7, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.50 all display a "green bar" - either the entire address bar goes green, or the company name is displayed on a green background. Why have you apparently decided to have no "green bar" for EV in Chrome? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
