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by TZubiri 313 days ago
Certificates have fields for location, company or name of person.
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They mean very little. Even the fully reviewed software signing cert I got with id validation was a total hack job (company didn't know how to read my ID, asked to change some field and they did).
So you're suggesting we should bring back extended validation? Currently they don't mean anything.