If you use Stripe, Twitter, npm, or your bank, you'll see the company name in a green bar. That's an EV certificate and is the only way for a website to prove a company's identity.
EV certs are great, particularly if you're selling something or people are logging into your site.
Since they involve a bunch of verification, the industry standard time get the certificate is normally about 7-21 days.
https://certsimple.com, my company, live checks data while you enter to do EV in an average of 5 hours. It takes 80 seconds to apply, including making the CSR - no Q and A in a terminal, no installing anything, just cut and paste.
Because of this, we're faster at EV than everyone else.
We also give 5% of our revenue to groups that make strong crypto happen - we cut our first cheque to OpenBSD Foundation last Friday. We also publish a bunch of interesting research around performance and security at http://certsimple.com, including OSS code to recreate our results.
Hope that helps! Email me any time at mike@certsimple.com if you have questions.
Mike
PS. if you don't need EV, we recommend you get a free certificate from http://letsencrypt.org which should be launching soon.
If you use Stripe, Twitter, npm, or your bank, you'll see the company name in a green bar. That's an EV certificate and is the only way for a website to prove a company's identity.
EV certs are great, particularly if you're selling something or people are logging into your site.
Since they involve a bunch of verification, the industry standard time get the certificate is normally about 7-21 days.
https://certsimple.com, my company, live checks data while you enter to do EV in an average of 5 hours. It takes 80 seconds to apply, including making the CSR - no Q and A in a terminal, no installing anything, just cut and paste.
Because of this, we're faster at EV than everyone else.
We also give 5% of our revenue to groups that make strong crypto happen - we cut our first cheque to OpenBSD Foundation last Friday. We also publish a bunch of interesting research around performance and security at http://certsimple.com, including OSS code to recreate our results.
Hope that helps! Email me any time at mike@certsimple.com if you have questions.
Mike
PS. if you don't need EV, we recommend you get a free certificate from http://letsencrypt.org which should be launching soon.