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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Green address bar in Vista IE7 - Extended Validation Certificate

Some https sites now have this new type of certificates - EV

IE7 in Vista will highlight EV site with green colour and will show the Certification Authority who certified the site. Example: https://sourceforge.net

Read about EV:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ev/default.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

EV works on Windows XP as well - you just need to have the Phishing Filter enabled.

Daniyar said...

Yes, and in Windows 2003 IE7 also, thanks for remark