EV Certificate Transparency
Certificate Transparency (CT) is a Google initiative to log, audit, and monitor certificates that Certificate Authorities (CAs) have issued. CT’s intent is to prevent CAs from issuing public key certificates for a domain without the domain owner’s knowledge. Chrome support for CT requires that all CAs log all Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates in publicly auditable, append-only logs for the green address bar to appear in Chrome. This plan starts February 2015.
Certificate Transparency (CT) is a Google initiative to log, audit, and monitor certificates that Certificate Authorities (CAs) have issued. CT’s intent is to prevent CAs from issuing public key certificates for a domain without the domain owner’s knowledge. Chrome support for CT requires that all CAs log all Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates in publicly auditable, append-only logs for the green address bar to appear in Chrome. This plan starts February 2015.
Starting on December 2014, when EV SSL certificates are issued, the certificates will be automatically logged in public CT logs.
Resources
About Certificate Transparency in Chromium (Chrome):
http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/certificate-transparency
Knowledge Base
Symantec MPKI for SSL:
Symantec Retail:
https://knowledge.verisign.com/support/ssl-certificates-support/index?page=content&id=AR2177
GeoTrust:
https://knowledge.geotrust.com/support/knowledge-base/index?page=content&id=AR2179