[jlgaddis]

Off-topic (but somewhat related, perhaps?) question for any of you who and submitted the form (no cheating, please!):

What type of SSL certificate -- DV or EV -- did the Legalist web site have, if any?

I'm just interested in {whether|how many of} you bothered to look before submitting your information.

(I'm asking because I was reminded of a recent HN discussion about DV/EV certificates and this seemed as good of a "test case" as any.)

[xie_alan]

I'd be interested in reading that discussion if you have it handy. I've been looking into SSL recently for some personal sites and the easiest method has been a combination of GitHub pages / Cloudflare. I might be mistaken, but aren't EV certs just a cash grab by the issuing authorities?

[jlgaddis]

> I'd be interested in reading that discussion if you have it handy.

Sure. It was a discussion [0] of an article by Troy Hunt entitled "On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt" [1].

(There have been a few other recent discussions [2,3] that also mentioned EV that you might be interested in.)

> I've been looking into SSL recently for some personal sites and the easiest method has been a combination of GitHub pages / Cloudflare.

That seems to be a pretty common setup (for "easy"), as well as static sites on AWS S3, etc.

Most of my sites run WordPress on my own (physical) servers so I can't personally comment on those methods.

> ...aren't EV certs just a cash grab by the issuing authorities?

That seems to be the popular opinion (at least here on HN), though I can understand the desire to use EV over DV in certain situations.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14805233

[1]: https://www.troyhunt.com/on-the-perceived-value-ev-certs-cas...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14749565

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15221119