SwissSign EV-enabled and a Public Suffix List
By Yngve Nysæter Pettersen. Wednesday, 17. June 2009, 13:40:59
The SwissSign Certificate Authority has now been EV enabled. A testsite is available here.
Those who are keeping an eye on what data are available from the certs.opera.com server will notice a new folder at the root, "domains". This folder will contain the data future versions of Opera will use to determine what type of domain a given hostname or domain is, specifically whether it is a normal domain name like opera.com, or a registry-like domain such as co.uk and city.state.us, also known as a "Public Suffix" or "Effective TLD". There are several areas where this type of information is useful, such as cookie domain checking, some Javascript security functionality and UI presentation of web server hostnames to highlight the domain.
We are now starting internal testing of Public Suffixes (not in Opera 10). As our variant of the Public
Suffix support is based on an online update system, as documented in my "subtld" Internet Drafts, a necessary precondition for the testing is a live service providing the data.
The Public Suffix list XML files in Opera's repository is based on (generated from) the list created by the Public Suffix List project managed by Mozilla. Like the original Public Suffix List, Opera's generated XML files are available under the same MPL tri-license (MPL, GPL, LGPL) and unsigned versions of the files can be downloaded as a single archive from from our Public Suffix download location.
You can read more about the Public Suffix List at publicsuffix.org and my articles1,2.
Those who are keeping an eye on what data are available from the certs.opera.com server will notice a new folder at the root, "domains". This folder will contain the data future versions of Opera will use to determine what type of domain a given hostname or domain is, specifically whether it is a normal domain name like opera.com, or a registry-like domain such as co.uk and city.state.us, also known as a "Public Suffix" or "Effective TLD". There are several areas where this type of information is useful, such as cookie domain checking, some Javascript security functionality and UI presentation of web server hostnames to highlight the domain.
We are now starting internal testing of Public Suffixes (not in Opera 10). As our variant of the Public
Suffix support is based on an online update system, as documented in my "subtld" Internet Drafts, a necessary precondition for the testing is a live service providing the data.
The Public Suffix list XML files in Opera's repository is based on (generated from) the list created by the Public Suffix List project managed by Mozilla. Like the original Public Suffix List, Opera's generated XML files are available under the same MPL tri-license (MPL, GPL, LGPL) and unsigned versions of the files can be downloaded as a single archive from from our Public Suffix download location.
You can read more about the Public Suffix List at publicsuffix.org and my articles1,2.
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