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Re: IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Kelm)
Fri Jul 12 10:49:36 2002
From: "Stefan Kelm" <kelm@secorvo.de>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:53:09 +0200
Reply-To: kelm@secorvo.de
In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020710162215.03a1ea40@bivens.parrhesia.com>
> >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
I sincerely doubt the numbers presented in this so-called
"survey". How did they get to a number of only 91,136
secure servers "across all domains"? There are a huge number
of CAs, many of which offer certificates to the public
(see http://www.pki-page.info/#CA). Even if most CAs will
not have a significant market share those numbers would be
different.
Cheers,
Stefan.
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Dipl.-Inform. Stefan Kelm
Security Consultant
Secorvo Security Consulting GmbH
Albert-Nestler-Strasse 9, D-76131 Karlsruhe
Tel. +49 721 6105-461, Fax +49 721 6105-455
E-Mail kelm@secorvo.de, http://www.secorvo.de
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