At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961