COMODO - Abdulhayoglu: Yellow Padlock Losing Meaning

Jersey City, NJ, July 02, 2009 - "The chicken padlock is accident its acceptation as a assurance indicator," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO of Comodo.

Online businesses should authorize added assurance than simple area validation can offer. Abdulhayoglu declared that area validation agency the affidavit ascendancy has arrested alone to see if the affidavit holder controls the area and not whether the affidavit holder is a acknowledged entity.

On the Internet, SSL certificates are acclimated as the base for encryption algorithms. Internet browsers affectation a chicken padlock if they ascertain that the manual is encrypted, behindhand of whether the website has a area accurate or college affirmation certificate.

Domain validation (DV) certificates omit the footfall of acceptance the acknowledged actuality of the applicant. Organizational validation (OV) certificates beggarly that the issuer has arrested both the area name and the acknowledged existence.

One acumen why the Certificate Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum came up with an Extended Validation (EV) SSL affidavit was to add added assurances to the advice displayed in a certificate. These added assurances are appropriate by guidelines accustomed by the CA/B Forum, of which Abdulhayoglu is a co-founder. When a lot of browsers ascertain an EV SSL certificate, they affectation a blooming abode bar for encrypted transmissions.

Sites with DV certificates affectation aureate padlocks, which may advance a chump to accept that a college akin of affidavit was performed.

Because the blazon of validation a affidavit may accept varies abundantly both by affidavit blazon and by affidavit authority, the aureate padlock can beggarly altered things to altered people. Global industry standards should be allowable to crave assertive minimum validation above-mentioned to assuming the aureate padlock. This way the padlock acts as a assurance indicator of the merchant rather than a simple attribute of encryption.

Comodo is the second-largest issuer of top affirmation agenda certificates, including organization-validated and EV SSL. For a video of Melih Abdulhayoglu's assessment on domain-validated SSL certificates, amuse appointment ComodoVision
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