I know with the current state the certificates are going to be Domain Validated (DV). Are there any plans to offer Extended Validation (EV) certificates in the future?

Continuing the discussion from Green Address bar : [image] Green Address bar We expect that Let's Encrypt won't support EV, because the EV process will always require human effort, which will require paying someone. Our model is to issue certificates free of charge, which requires a level automat…

What about having some volunteers that would do that? They’d do it for free and maybe you guys could give them community service hours or something like that.

But this can’t be done by everyone. I mean everyone is able to do it, but the person who does this is also responsible for this. And from an outer perspective LE is responsible if there is an ‘mistake’ and it would be very bad if LE looses trust as this is the most important thing of CAs. So basi…

I assume that OV certificates won’t be issued for similar reasons.

I also would welcome “organisation validated” certificates - maybe this is the point where “Let’sEncrypt” could join forces with the already long-term existing “web-of-trust” managed by CACert.org ???

@Schultz-IT-Solutions the main reason why LE is not supporting OV and EV is because the validation procedures are hard to automate. For the sake of my curiosity, do you have any concrete proposal for how the various organization and business validations (that today involve several back and forth) c…

I have an example for France. La Poste (the national mail service) offer a service called “Lettre recommendée” id est, you send a mail (actual paper mail) to someone or some organization, and “La Poste” do not give the mail without a proof of identity (usually the national identity card or a passpo…

@Nit , what you describe is an external process that requires manual intervention and it can’t be performed programmatically. That’s the issue.

Plans for Extended Validation?

Feature Requests

roland August 22, 2015, 10:09pm 2

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Automatically issued OV certificates Feature Requests	10	2802	September 9, 2022
Extended checks if domain already has a EV certificate Issuance Policy	16	5461	April 20, 2017
What is the business model? ISRG/Organizational	27	20957	October 28, 2015
Proposal to enable free and richer EV certificates Issuance Policy	14	3567	July 3, 2018
Will lets encrypt ever offer other ssls Feature Requests	5	877	January 6, 2019

Plans for Extended Validation?

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