How will Entrust EV SSL Certificates be different from the current Entrust SSL Certificates?
top) The primary difference will be in what happens before the Entrust EV SSL Certificates are even issued. Before issuing any Entrust SSL Certificate, Entrust performs checks to ‘vet’ or validate the identity of the requestor. Under the new EV model, validation of an entity (e.g. a company or web site operator) requesting an Entrust EV SSL Certificate will be performed using industry standard guidelines, as defined by the CA/Browser Forum. This is different from current practices in that different Certification Authorities have very different validation standards. Although the majority of Certification Authorities have rigorous validation practices, not all do and this undermines the overall security of SSL for consumer transactions. Certificates issued using ‘Extended Validation’ will include a reference to an EV-specific certificate policy. Each Certification Authority will have a unique policy and Policy Object Identifier (OID). Browsers supporting EV will behave differently when t
