Of course, Equifax are a second level CA, off the root CA of Thawte!
Their situation is ALSO tentative...... big as they are. In fact, this
customer (Equifax) is probably the ONLY reason they have not
scrapped Thawte altogether.
The appearance of competition is much better than *real
competition.
We are talking about simple numbers here - and concentration of
power in the hands of a few Elite American Companies.
The equifax deal got Verisign's attention alright. Buy your
competition and destroy them.
> However they do have a competitor in equifax
> http://www.equifaxsecure.com/digitalcertificates/dc_webservcert.html at
> $79.00 per year. We have several of our servers set up with them and are
> planning on converting all of the servers over to equifax as the current
> ca's expire.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: Hostmaster
> Cc: Alex Kells; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Fwd: New Cert Authority - Are you listening OpenSRS?
>
>
> > Guess what? Since Verisign bought Thawte (two days after the deal was
> > signed) the Wild card certs are gone from their web site. You can still
> get
> > one at USD 525 (around) if you call and ASK for it-- but it will probably
> > drop from the offerings *completely* soon. If you host web sites, this is
> a
> > BIG concern.
>
> We order wildcard certs the same way as always. Generate a CSR with a
> name of *.domain.ext and the Thawte forms automatically flag it as a
> wildcard cert request.
>
> Thawte will probably be completely shut down within the next couple of
> years. At the time the buy-out was announced, the prior owner of Thawte
> (now a multi-millionaire thanks to Verisign) said that Verisign promised
> to keep the Thawte services available for one or two years... of course
> they didn't promise not to raise prices, which was basically the reason
> Verisign bought Thawte--Thawte was eating away at Verisign's market share.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
>
>
>
