Just got a call from Equifaxsecure...seems that a quickcert I registered
had an admin contact email that wasn't setup yet (new domain
name)...thus all confirmation emails bounced (I knew this).

This support guy called, explained it, wanted to wait on the phone while
I confirmed that the email was actually received, knew what he was
talking about, and didn't need blood samples to prove authenticity.  

I obviously asked immediately about reseller program and have a busdev
guy calling back.

Just an FYI....  I echo Williams comment re: turning the market upside
down.

J.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of William X Walsh
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:53 PM
To: David Harris
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re[4]: Entrust certificates information needed

Thursday, Thursday, October 25, 2001, 8:04:04 PM, David Harris wrote:


> William X Walsh wrote:
>> I ordered a QuickSSL Certificate this week, and I had the cert within
>> 10 minutes.  That and other features make them a highly attractive
>> option.  I'm inquiring about reseller/partner arrangements/pricing,
>> but I think this company is poised to do what I had hoped Tucows
would
>> do to the Cert market (since they did it to the domain market).

> Having a certificate in 10 minutes seems really handy.

> What kind of verification procedure happened? What info did you have
to
> provide?

They pulled it from whois, and sent a verification email much like
OpenSRS does for transfers.  The contact has to approve the issue of
the cert to the person requesting it.

> I note that on their website Geogrust says that the QuickSSL
certificate is
> only accepted by 90% of existing web browsers.

The businessID (the product they acquired from Equifax) has full
support, since the CA cert they use for it is countersigned by Thawte.


> Is this acceptable to you?

Yes, it is.  I'm no longer interested in catering to lowest common
denominator.  Progress has to be made.  And you can provide
instructions for those 10 percent to load the CA Cert manually and
eliminate the warning popup.

> And, now that Geotrust has acquired Equefax Secure, should we expect
> QuickSSL to be implemented using the Equefax Secure root enabling a
greater
> browser acceptance?

The BusinessID package has the full browser acceptance Equifax
enjoyed, the others don't.

But I'm happy with it as is.  People need to embrace progress and move
away from the older pre 4.7 versions of Netscape.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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