What browser recognition is required?
Browser recognition or ubiquity is the term used in the industry to describe the estimated percentage of Internet users that will inherently trust an SSL certificate. Certification Authorities who own their own roots, have what are known as Root CA Certificates. These root CA certificates are added into releases of all the major browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc by the browser vendor (such as Microsoft). When a browser is used, it automatically relies on a “list” of root CA certificates that the browser vendor has deemed trustworthy. If a SSL certificate is issued by one of the trusted root CAs, then the browser will inherently trust the SSL certificate and the gold padlock will appear transparently during secure sessions. The browser stores the CA roots that can be trusted, therefore if a browser encounters a website using a SSL certificate issued by a CA root it does not trust, the browser will display warning messages to the website visitor. The lower the brow
