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High-Assurance / Extended Validation SSL Certificates: GeoTrust Announces Support

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GeoTrust Announces Support for High Assurance / Extended Validation
SSL Certificates
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GeoTrust is pleased to announce support for the new High Assurance / Extended Validation SSL certificate standard, which is being defined by leading browser companies including Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror, in partnership with Certificate Authorities including GeoTrust and VeriSign, as well as the American Bar Association Information Security Committee. These certificates will entail a higher level of business verification than any Certificate Authority’s current vetting methods. Additionally, High Assurance / Extended Validation SSL certificate identity information will be clearly displayed in the new generation browsers, so that consumers will easily be able to discern that they are indeed at the site they think they are, and not a fraudulent version of a popular website.

The new specification for verifying identities for the new High Assurance / Extended Validation SSL certificate is expected to be finalised in the coming months. The vetting process will be more comprehensive than today’s vetting standards, which primarily rely on email and faxed information, database lookups and phone calls before issuing an SSL certificate. Today, these processes vary from Certificate Authority to Certificate Authority, and encompass an array of manual and automated processes.

Key to the new High Assurance / Extended Validation certificates is a standardized process across Certificate Authorities for verifying information that will include: verifying the organization’s identity; verifying that the would-be purchaser has the legal authority to make the SSL certificate request for that the organizational entity; and, that it is a legitimate business, not a shell or false front entity.

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GeoTrust High Assurance / Extended Validation Protection Programme

If you purchase a multi-year Enterprise SSL, QuickSSL Premium, True BusinessID or Power ServerID certificate today, GeoTrust will offer an upgrade promotion to the new High Assurance / Extended Validation SSL certificates (when they are available) that preserves your current investment.

There’s no obligation, and no risk. We just want to assure you that you’ll be able to upgrade, if and when you want, to the new certificates. And, we’ll credit you with the unused portion of this certificate towards the new High Assurance / Extended Validation Certificate’s price.

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