Re[2]: Fwd: New Cert Authority - Are you listening OpenSRS?

[William X. Walsh]

Monday, November 27, 2000, 12:17:47 PM, you wrote:

> Of course, Equifax are a second level CA, off the root CA of Thawte!

Equifax's CA cert is shipped with the latest browsers.  The Thawte
countersign of their CA cert is meant only to help with the older
browsers issue.

They are not a "second level ca" except in the sense that the
signature by Thawte enables older browsers that do not come with the
Equifax CA root cert shipped to access the sites using those signed
certs without the dire (and exaggerated) warning that the browsers
have built-in.

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 William                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]