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Read the headlines on the home page of either CA. Thawte''s logo now
displays a ''sold'' banner across the front. (And like many
others, I just
switched all of my certificates from Verisign to Thawte this year...now
we''re going to be dealing wiht them again!)
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Brent Alexander Oswald /\ http://www.io.com/~buzzboy
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Webmaster /____\ NIC: BO525
FNORD!
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, L.C. (Laurentiu Badea) wrote:> From the graph on Thawte''s site, Thawte had 41% of the market, Verisign > had over 55%. Can you say "monopoly" ?The other one (~ 55%) was "RSA Data Security'', not Verisign. Cristian -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristian Gafton -- gafton@redhat.com -- Red Hat, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?" --Al Gore on Y2K
From the graph on Thawte''s site, Thawte had 41% of the market, Verisign had over 55%. Can you say "monopoly" ? -- Regards, L.C. Network Admin @ InfoStreet (818) 776 8080 x213 "Brent A. Oswald" wrote:> > Read the headlines on the home page of either CA. Thawte''s logo now > displays a ''sold'' banner across the front. (And like many others, I just > switched all of my certificates from Verisign to Thawte this year...now > we''re going to be dealing wiht them again!)
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Cristian Gafton wrote:> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, L.C. (Laurentiu Badea) wrote: > > > From the graph on Thawte''s site, Thawte had 41% of the market, Verisign > > had over 55%. Can you say "monopoly" ? > > The other one (~ 55%) was "RSA Data Security'', not Verisign. >Read the note below the graph...Verisign signs their certificates using the name "RSA Data Security"...they have a few signed "Verisign, Inc.", and a few others in the ''Verisign Trust Network''. (And Verisign has already updated their pages to boast that their certificates now authenticate over 95% of the SSL servers on the ''Net.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brent Alexander Oswald /\ http://www.io.com/~buzzboy ILLUMINATI ONLINE /IO\ buzzboy@io.com Webmaster /____\ NIC: BO525 FNORD!