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Re: IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Wed Jul 10 21:50:01 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:31:24 -0700
To: jamesd@echeque.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
cypherpunks@lne.com
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@parrhesia.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D2C574B.24790.3446484@localhost>
At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
> --
>On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> > Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New
> > cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have
> > increased more than 50%.
>[...]
>Why is not someone else issuing certificates?
See <http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/sdata/200206/certca.html> for
recent data re SSL certificate market share; Geotrust, at
<http://www.geotrust.com>, has 11% of the market, and appears (from their
web pages; I haven't bought one) to be ready to issue SSL server certs
without the torturous document review process which Verisign invented but
Thawte managed to make simultaneously more intrusive and less relevant.
--
Greg Broiles -- gbroiles@parrhesia.com -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961
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