How credible and stable is the CA issuing the SSL certificate?
Clearly for any SSL certificate to be taken seriously, it is important to ensure that the CA issuing the SSL certificate is well established and credible. The best way of determining the credibility of a CA is by simply establishing whether the CA in question owns its own trusted root i.e. does the CA own a root that is already present in all popular browsers? You can examine trusted root ownership by double clicking the padlock seen in the browser during an SSL connection with a webserver. When the SSL Certificate appears, simply click the “Certification Path” tab to see which trusted root CA certificate issued the SSL certificate. It is also possible to see the trusted roots referenced in a browser e.g. for IE6, go to “Tools”, “Internet Options” and select “Content”, “Certificates” and then the tab “Trusted Root Certification Authorities”. GeoTrust owns the Equifax root (Equifax Digital Certificate services became GeoTrust in 2001). RapidSSL.com’s RapidSSL and RapidSSL Wildcard produ
