[144431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Sep 11 22:44:38 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbVcRq8q8C6y4zYZkovmL6HwB1O6Fif0KtKC_355SdsnmQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:43:46 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what's the real benefit of an EV cert? (to the service owner, not the
>> CA, the CA benefit is pretty clearly $$)
>
> The benefit is to the end user.
> They see a green address bar =A0with the company's name displayed.
>
> Yeah, company's name displayed -- individuals cannot apply for EVSSL cert=
s.
>
this isn't really a benefit though, is it? isn't the domain-name in
the location bar doing the same thing?
