This has always puzzled me about SSL certs. Most site owners want to ensure that communication to and from the server is encrypted and secure from all prying eyes, period.<p>Other site owners also want to add to this the concept of trust, to prove who they are has been legitimately verified by a trusted third party.<p>That the two mechanisms are forced together is not ideal. The lock symbol symbol should symbolise the encryption. Another icon should be used to denote trust.<p>Snowdon has uniquely proven that all data must be encrypted both in communiqué and ideally also at rest.<p>Is encrypted communications and verified trust mutually exclusive or not. Discuss!
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10473966" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10473966</a><p>My link is newer, just 2 hours old, but these look like the exact same article to me.