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Re:Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS by ejcx on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:40PM (#10713286)
Their cert used to be an EV cert. I remember this because the address bar looked absurd as an EV cert "The Washington Post" plus the extra iconography associated with an EV cert. It took up a quarter of my URL bar on a small screen macbook.

It looks like they are using instart logic, and are on the same cert as a bunch of their other enterprise customers now.

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Re:Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS by thetmkay on Thursday December 10, 2015 @06:03PM (#10714270)
FYI they had that because EV Certs are tied to the official company name, so if you want a more 'colloquial' name, there's a special field called something like 'doing business as'. Then the displayed green bar says:

> Official Business Name (Colloquial Business Name)

Which in the case of two very long names...

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Re:Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS by exelius on Thursday December 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#10713510)
> It looks like they are using instart logic, and are on the same cert as a bunch of their other enterprise customers now.

Which is a great way to know who Instant Logic's customers are, if you're in the CDN business and looking for customers to poach...

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