--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:19:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "L. Sassaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thawte PGP Support (fwd) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This figures. I guess Verisign is finally exercising its power. __ L. Sassaman System Administrator | "And all our yesterdays Technology Consultant | have lighted fools..." icq.. 10735603 | pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Shakespeare - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:19:15 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thawte PGP Support Hi, ************* This is an official Thawte Personal Certificate Announcement for all our customers using PGP ************* We would like to inform all of Thawte's PGP users that we will soon be discontinuing our support of PGP. We are in the process of making changes to our signing engines, and as of 1 September 2000, we will be converting to new systems. These changes will result in us no longer being able to sign PGP keys for our users. The discontinuation of this system will in no way affect the validity of your keys and the Thawte signatures on your keys will remain valid. For those of you who have had your identities verified for the Thawte Web of Trust, your points will remain and you are invited to obtain personal x.509 certificates which carry your name. Between now and 1 september, please feel free to get any keys that you might have, signed by Thawte. In the past we have attempted to keep up to date with our support of newer releases of PGP, but have not always managed to achieve this with the effectiveness that is commonly associated with other Thawte services. We still believe, however, that PGP is an excellent personal encryption tool, and this decision should in no way be interpreted as an indication of our confidence in PGP. If you have any questions or comments on this announcement, please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience. Regards, - -- Bruce Watermeyer Thawte Certification Need the strongest encryption available? Get a Thawte 128-bit SuperCert at http://www.thawte.com/certs/server/128bit/contents.html "It's better to regret something you did, Than something you didn't do!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred. iD8DBQE5icXOPYrxsgmsCmoRAgefAJ0Z5TtPH/ndDZ7yfhxHgqS2dT6FWQCeIYvC pHlm2QZUFxRq54ZGhHjycjY= =kCMc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
