New SSL certificates coming

New SSL certificates coming
Peter Laborge, 2005-12-12

New SSL certificates coming 2005-12-13
Anonymous (2 replies)

Verisign already verifies your business and employee standing. The problem is that not everyone does as deep of a check.

Certificates by the leading cert authorites (Verisign, etc) are already WAY overpriced for what it takes to issue them. I imagine this will give them reason to jack up the pr...

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Re: New SSL certificates coming 2005-12-13
CN

@anonymous, who said: Certificates by the leading cert authorites (Verisign, etc) are already WAY overpriced for what it takes to issue them.

If you're looking at the price to issue, that's one thing, but they're not just issuing. They're managing an entire certificate life-cycle and revocatio...

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Re: New SSL certificates coming 2005-12-14
Anonymous

"Meanwhile businesses will be required to keep buying more expensive certificates at each point."

Exactly. The idea is to keep the revenue flowing from our pockets to theirs.

Mike

http://www.quicktrivia.com

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More Complexity or is this Simplicity? 2005-12-13
CN (1 replies)

All of these CAs and browser vendors should read "Security and Usability" before they meet. I'm skeptical of the idea of a high-assurance certificate. How much more complex do we need to make the Web for users who don't (and never will) understand principles of security? After all, they shouldn't...

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Proactively Protecting Online Brands from Fraud 2005-12-16
Beck Miller

The idea that companies should protect their brands from theft and fraudulent use is embedded within our Online Brand Audit and Online Brand Rating models: http://www.onlinebrandrating.com.

Beck Miller

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The real problem.... 2005-12-14
Roger

is that the interface doesn't match the intentions. When you go to an SSL protected site, you see a little padlock icon, and that proves the site is secure. Well, indeed it does; it proves (more or less) that you really are talking to the owner of that certificate, BUT who the hell is that? If you w...

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