{"id":1358,"date":"2017-07-28T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/?page_id=1358"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:07:27","slug":"dv-vs-ov-if-users-cant-tell-the-difference-is-there-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/projects\/web-certificates\/dv-vs-ov-if-users-cant-tell-the-difference-is-there-one\/","title":{"rendered":"DV vs OV: If users can&#8217;t tell the difference, is there one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DV only certifies encryption. OV certs verify the Organization&#8217;s name and location. However, they \u00a0have the same security indicator across all browsers. So how do users know if the website they&#8217;re at has had this information checked out?<\/p>\n<p>Really, they can&#8217;t and most probably wont.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1281 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Secure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For users, the process for checking certificate details has become seriously hard as of March (2017) for Chrome users. The new interface is being tested, so we can&#8217;t comment on this now&#8230; but having the same indicator for two (very) different certificates is confusing and ultimately diminishes the OV&#8217;s value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DV only certifies encryption. OV certs verify the Organization&#8217;s name and location. However, they \u00a0have the same security indicator across all browsers. So how do users know if the website they&#8217;re at has had this information checked out? Really, they can&#8217;t and most probably wont. For users, the process for checking certificate details has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1214,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358\/revisions\/1365"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}