A conversation with DigiCert’s Jeff Barto about the green padlock and the future of trust indicators

Today we’re going to wax philosophic about one of the biggest questions facing the SSL/TLS industry: is the Green Padlock dead?

If it’s not dead, it’s certainly on life support with talk of deprecating it entirely now that the internet is migrating to HTTPS. And admittedly, there are myriad issues facing it—the biggest of which is a misunderstanding over what it means in the first place.

Fortunately, we had the fine folks from DigiCert in our office for a few days last week and I had the opportunity to speak at length with resident DigiCert trust evangelist (and the man behind those monthly threat reports), Jeff Barto, about this very topic (and a range of others).

So, today we’re going to talk about the Green padlock, whether it’s dead and what can be done to save it.

Let’s hash it out…

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