: Will a simple domain validated SSL certificate show a 'green lock'? I'm looking into buying an SSL certificate for my domain. I'm considering buying: https://www.ssl.nu/en/products/regular+ssl/ssl+basic/

@Speyer207

From the Wikipedia article "Extended Validation Certificate":


An Extended Validation Certificate (EV) is an X.509 public key
certificate issued according to a specific set of identity
verification criteria. These criteria require extensive verification
of the requesting entity's identity by the certificate authority (CA)
before a certificate is issued. Certificates issued by a CA under the
EV guidelines are not structurally different from other certificates
(and hence provide no stronger cryptography than other, cheaper
certificates)...

...all CAs globally must follow the same detailed issuance
requirements which aim to:


Establish the legal identity as well as the operational and physical presence of website owner;
Establish that the applicant is the domain name owner or has exclusive control over the domain name; and
Confirm the identity and authority of the individuals acting for the website owner, and that documents pertaining to legal
obligations are signed by an authorised officer.


The Extended Validation guidelines require participating Certificate
Authorities to assign a specific EV identifier... [if] the certificate
is verified as current, the SSL certificate receives the enhanced EV
display in the browser's user interface. In most implementations, the
enhanced display includes:


The name of the company or entity that owns the certificate.
The name of the SSL Certificate Authority (CA) that issued the EV certificate.
A distinctive color, usually green, shown in the address bar to indicate that a valid EV certificate was received.


In 2006, researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft Research
conducted a usability study of the EV display in Internet Explorer 7.
Their paper concluded that "participants who received no training in
browser security features did not notice the extended validation
indicator and did not outperform the control group", whereas
"participants who were asked to read the Internet Explorer help file
were more likely to classify both real and fake sites as legitimate".

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@Ogunnowo487

ignore above answer

You can get a Green Lock by normal SSL (in Chrome, as your picture)

you probobly won't get a Greeb Bar from a normal SSL

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@Reiling115

Normally the cheaper SSL certificates don't get you a green lock/bar, instead the browser will show a blue one (Firefox will highlight the domain in this color).

They are technically the same (the connection is encrypted), but they are cheaper, because they only have to check the domain. The "green" certificates also require information about the owner and the seller sould check, if this information is correct.

In most cases the cheaper certificate is fine, the user will have no disadvantages and the "green" certificates are really (too) expensive.

Here you can find an example with the "blue" certificate from google: accounts.google.com/

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