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Re: [cobalt-security] self signed certificate warnings
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] self signed certificate warnings
- From: "AYoung@Home" <ayoung78@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:06:15 -0500
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
on 2/21/02 1:27 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> When Verisign first went into the business they earned their money; they
> went through a lot of hoops to make sure the company was who it says it
> was.
>
> Now Thawte does less and charges less. GeoTrust does still less and
> charges still less.
>
> That seems to be a fair tradeoff. If you want to have a cert from a
> U.S. company that knows who you are beyond a shadow of a doubt before
> issuing the cert, buy from Verisign, for somewhere around us$350 or so.
> If you want to buy from a South African company that does less in the
> way of due diligence and charges less, buy from Thawte for us$125. If
> you want to buy a GeoTrust cert from a company that verifies you can be
> reached at your domain and that you have the rights to the domain as
> enumerated in your registrar's whois database, buy from me for us$99
> <smile>.
>
Actually Thawte was bought out by Verisign in either 1999 or 2000. You can
read about the Thawte/Verisign merger.
http://thawte.com/corporate/vsfaq.html
Alisa