Gervase Markham: > Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > >> Currently the ratio of EV certs is below 1% of overall SSL secured web >> sites. If EV doesn't get a significant market share, your priorities >> might have been wrong and we should have addressed other issues as well. >> > > I don't really have the bandwidth to dive into this discussion, and > Frank seems to be doing a good job, but I will comment on this point: > the % of _sites_ using EV is pretty much irrelevant. What you need to > know is the % of _transactions_ using EV, or even more specifically, the > % of value transactions (those where money changes hands). > Yes, this is a good argument in favor of EV and EV is exactly intended for that. Just a pity the rest of the public PKI is left broken, no matter what the reasons are (by design, lack of interest, commercial interests, etc), because there is more to protect than Paypal, Ebay and few banks. EV however might be an overkill for others. Just my 0.02$
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