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]> Userfriendly.com Domains The most advanced domain lookup tool on the net DNS Services from $1.65/mo
