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Ask HN: Is there any particular reason to go for SSL EV Certificate?

3 points by anilshanbhag ↗ HN
After the latest Symantec incident, I was left wondering if there is any real benefit getting one of their fancy certificates. Their Extended Validation certificates cost ~ $1000.

I looked around and most consumer sites, even ones that accept payment like Amazon don't. However most banking firms and payment processing firms like Stripe and Paypal do. If someone could shed light on the added real benefit, that would be great.

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stephenr
EV means the visitor gets assurance about the organisation they're connected to, rather than the domain they're connected to.

I suggest you look at https://certsimple.com - 1/4 the price you mentioned.

VeronicaHadley
EV Certs help websites to enable green bar in the browsers with company name and address. Giant companies with higher amount of traffic prefers to get EV for eminent assurance. If you are using third party payment portal on your site still you should enable SSL to protect login, address, credit card data, etc. I get certs using coupons https://www.cheapsslcouponcode.com/coupons/ev-ssl-certificat... which always helps me to save bucks.
[dead] kevinjohnson11
EV SSL Certificate is considered as the one of the most trusted and reliable SSL in the industry. When your website has an EV SSL Certificate, your customers or users can be confident about transacting in a security-enabled environment.

You should use an EV SSL Certificate wherever you need to communicate a high level of trust to your users, such as shopping carts, login pages, and other sensitive front-facing pages. Only EV SSL provides green address bar and business name in the browser. Comodo is a reliable certificate authority that offers EV SSL certificate at cheap price as $84/yr. (From ComodoSSLstore.com)

Read this article to know more about EV & its uses- https://comodosslstore.com/blog/a-brief-introduction-of-exte...