According to http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132017-page,1/article.html Verisign has released a plugin to paint the Firefox address bar green when encountering an EV cert. An interesting comment is also here: http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000927.html
/ Verisign's Tim Callan says that more than 500 Web sites, including sites run by eBay's PayPal division and ING Group, have now completed EV SSL certification. Nearly 90 percent of them are certified by Verisign, said Callan, a director of product marketing with the company's SSL group./ Since the majority of the issued EV certs come from Verisign I think the correct approach to EV is indeed via their own plugin. Anybody interested can install the plugin which isn't something which should be in the mainstream browser. Also Comodo CA has released a similar plugin some time ago called "VerificationEngine" ( http://linuxpr.com/releases/8481.html )... But what Mozilla concerns, this issue can be looked at as resolved. Instead I suggest to follow the proposal of different verification levels which Eddy from StartCom made earlier and bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380775 which should "Make general page of certificate viewer easier to understand"... -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1.213.341.0390 _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
