Extended Validation Certificates

Extended Validation (EV) certificates are a special class of certificates that to off-line identities e.g., legal entities). Fore more information, go to the CA/B Forum's web site.

Browsers' EV OIDs

• Apple http://opensource.apple.com/source/security_certificates/security_certificates-55024.2/evroot.config (note: the link does not point to the always up-to-date version; you need to manually navigate one level up to see if there is a newer version)
• Chromium http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/base/ev_root_ca_metadata.cc?view=markup
• Opera
  • v9.5x and v9.6x https://certs.opera.com/02/ev-oids.xml
  • v10+ https://certs.opera.com/03/ev-oids.xml
• Mozilla http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manager/ssl/src/nsIdentityChecking.cpp