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VeriSign Trust Seal
As a VeriSign major partner, TBS internet is the first company in Europe to offer the VeriSign trust logo, the most recognized worldwide. An SSL certificate is no longer required as the seal is available after an organisation audit and comes with a malware detection system. More details...





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BROWSERS' SSL COMPATIBILITY

The purpose of this chart is to help you select the certificate which matches your technical needs. Independently of price or brand!

Certification authority recognized by the browser and setup a native level cipherment (see column 2) unless otherwise specified.
Certification Authority not recognized by the browser.
The behavior is specific or unknown.


THAWTE (7) TBS X509 GLOBALSIGN COMODO VERISIGN
Offer ssl
wssl (4)
sslev
prem
ecom
std
int
wild
sgc
wildsgc
mdom All prossl
wild
ucc
global
secureev
globalev
secure (5)
COMODO THAWTE
ev evsgc sgc
root see (2) see see see see see see see
All Operating system
Firefox
3 - 3.5.5 +EV +EV +EV +EV +EV
0.1 - 2.0.0.14
Google Chrome
with EV support with EV support with EV support +EV with EV support
Opera
9.5 - 9.64 +EV +EV +EV +EV +EV
8 - 9.27
7.02 - 7.54
6.02 - 7.01
5.12 - 6.01
3 - 5.11
J2RE
1.6.0 - 1.6.0_6
1.4.2_06 - 1.5.0_13
1.4.2_03 - 1.4.2_05
1.3.0_02 - 1.4.1
Seamonkey
2 +EV +EV +EV +EV +EV
1.0 - 1.1.18
Camino 1.0 - 2.0
Mozilla 1 - 1.7.13
Netscape
6 - 7.2
4.77 - 4.8 (3) (3) (3)
4.72 - 4.76
4.6 - 4.7 128-bit 128-bit
4.51 128-bit
4.0 - 4.5
2 - 3
Windows
Microsoft Internet Explorer
8.0 - 7.0 +EV +EV +EV +EV +EV
5.5 - 7.0b2
5.01(1) (6) 128-bit (6) 128-bit 128-bit 128-bit
3.02 - 4.0 - 5.0
AOL
7 - 9
6
5 128-bit
3 - 4
Netscape
8 - 9.0.0.6
Mac
SAFARI
3.2 - 4 with EV support with EV support with EV support +EV with EV support
1.2 - 3.1.x
1.0 - 1.1 (3) (3) (3) (3)
Linux
Konqueror 3.4 - 3.5.10 & 1 - 3.3.5

(1) : IE 5.01 with Windows 2000 requires service pack 1 or above to recognise Wildcard or OmniDomaine certificates, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;258858.
(2) : Prior 6 April 2005 the root used was Thawte Server CA.
(3) : CA recognized by the browser but does not support Multiple Sites (several CN or SAN fields).
(4) : Thawte Wildcard certificates are not recognized by Internet Explorer with Windows 95 & 98 (see FAQ)
(5) : Changed root on May 17th, 2009. (see FAQ)
(6) : IE 5.01 is no longer supported by Comodo EV issued after May 27th, 2010. (see FAQ)
(7) : Uses a certification chain since June 27th, 2010 (see FAQ)


SSL Compatibility with mobile tools

THAWTE TBS X509 GLOBALSIGN COMODO VERISIGN
Offer ssl
wssl
sslev
prem
ecom
std
int
wild
sgc
wildsgc
mdom All prossl
wild
ucc
global
secureev
globalev
secure
COMODO THAWTE
ev evsgc sgc
root see see see see see see see see
ALL Operating system
Palm WebOS
Palm OS (3)
Opera Mini 4.1+ & 3.0-3.1
Nokia Symbian (testé E61) (3)
Windows Mobile
WM CE6
WM CE5 & 2003(1)
WM 6.5
WM 2002(1)
Apple
iPhone 3.0 with EV support with EV support with EV support with EV support with EV support
iPhone & iPod Safari
Playstation
Netfront 3.4 (2)
Netfront 3.5 (2)
BlackBerry
OS 4.2.1
OS 4.3+
Android

(1) : Windows Mobile 5 does not support Wildcard
(2) : CA recognized by the browser but support of UCC (several SAN fields) is unknown.
(3) : CA recognized by the browser but does not support UCC (several SAN fields).


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Last modified: 30 July, 2010