SSL Certificate Warning Fixed

September 13th, 2007

Apologies for the inconvenience: we allowed our “SSL Security Certificate” to lapse. It expired this week and it is now paid up again.

The certificate issued by the independent authority who validates our domain had just expired. While the encryption is the same, paying independent authorities for the certificate helps authenticate we are who we say we are. In other words, there never was a problem with security of information and everything is up to date and should be fine now without any warnings in your web browser.

Through all of this, we learned about and are investigating upgrading our site to the new EV (Extended Validation) standard. For simplicity sake, we are using the popular company “godaddy.com” for our internet information listings and SSL. We formerly used Network Solutions but switched because the web industry sees NetSol as difficult to deal with.

For more information about Extended Validation, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate and also http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HighAssuranceOrLdquoExtendedValidationrdquoEVSSLCertificates.aspx

California Cycleworks, Inc will have no problems with the vetting process to get a “High assurance” or an EV certification. The steps required will take some time to complete for the EV, but won't be as time consuming for the high assurance cert.

Thanks,
Chris and the Ca Cycleworks team.

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