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by zaarn 2523 days ago
What surprises me is that people want OV certificates, since to my knowledge they are no different to DV certs in all applications...
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Sounds like a good insurance policy where your CA will risk their root program participation, and the managers their jobs to keep your certificates unrevoked for months:

> we have met a lot of resistances and compliances from the enterprise customers, mainly public entities, to whom we have wrongly responded by giving more time. Four months to replace some certificates is more than enough.

> As managing director I have just decided some organization and role changes with immediate effect: I have removed the SSL infrastructure and Operation managers

It's like people buying homeopathy or magic water in bottles.

If you have a good sales pitch and a customer who knows little about the product you're selling you can sell all kinds of nonsense.

"Cheap DV is good enough for private webpages, but for a serious webpage you need at least OV" makes little sense, but sounds good enough for many.