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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 with 2048-bit root certificates

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

This chart only considers certificates linked to 2048-bit roots, 1024-bit roots won't be uses from January 1st, 2011 anymore. Nevertheless, crossed certification is going to be set to minimize the impact on the user.

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 (6)
TBS X509 GLOBALSIGN VERISIGN
Offer ssl
wssl (4)
sslev
prem
ecom
std
int
wild
sgc
wildsgc
mdom All global
secureev
globalev
secure (5)
COMODO THAWTE
ev evsgc sgc
root see (2)
see see see see see see
Crossed certif 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
1.4.1
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)
4.72 - 4.76
4.6 - 4.7 128-bit 128-bit
4.51 128-bit
4.0 - 4.5
2 - 4.5
Windows
Microsoft Internet Explorer
8.0 - 7.0 +EV +EV +EV +EV +EV
5.5 - 7.0b2
5.01(1)
128-bit 128-bit 128-bit 128-bit
4.01 - 5.0
AOL
7 - 9
6
5 128-bit
4
Netscape
8 - 9.0.0.6
Mac
Microsoft Internet Explorer
5.1 - 5.2.1 (3) (3) (3)
5.0 128-bit (3) 128-bit (3) 128-bit (3)
4.0 - 4.5
SAFARI
4 - 3.2 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)
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) : Uses a certification chain since June 27th, 2010 (see FAQ)



SSL Compatibility with mobile tools

THAWTE TBS X509 GLOBALSIGN VERISIGN
Offer ssl
wssl
sslev
prem
ecom
std
int
wild
sgc
wildsgc
mdom All global
secureev
globalev
secure
COMODO THAWTE
ev evsgc sgc
root see see see see see see see
Crossed certif see see see see - see see
all operating system
Palm WebOS
Palm OS
Opera Mini 4.1+ & 3.0-3.1
Nokia Symbian (testé E61)
Windows Mobile
WM CE6
WM CE5
WM 6.5
WM 2003(1)
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
Netfront 3.5
BlackBerry
OS 4.2.1
OS 4.3+

(1) : does not support Wildcard


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