Unfortunately its not likely a Canadian company could make any real challenge in the US or SA. Entrust may be trying to protect themselves as they have set up their own CA based on the chaining Thawtes root rather than looking out for the good of the market ... Jeff On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Joe Ammann wrote: > > FYI: Read that on slashdot > (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/11/1029235.shtml) > > "Independent Online has a report that Entrust Technologies is > challenging Verisign's buyout of Thawte consulting. Verisign is the > world's largest SSL Certificate issuer, with 60% of the market, with > Thawte the second-largest, with about 40%. Combined, they own 99% of > the market. " > > The article of the South African newspaper is here: > > >http://www.iol.co.za/news/newsview.php3?click_id=79&art_id=ct20000111100725931S34055&set_id=1 > > (It took ages for me to get at it ...) > > Joe > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
