RE: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-14 Thread Lucky Green
RJ Harvey wrote: Thanks for the tip! I just got a new cert from Geotrust, and it was such an amazing contrast to those I've gotten from Verisign and Thawte! They apparently take the verification info from the whois data on the site, and you really can do the process from start to finish

RE: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-12 Thread Lucky Green
Adam wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: A 'second hand' root key seems to have some trust issues | - the thing you are buying is the private half of a public key pair | but that's just a piece of information. How can you be sure that, | as

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Broiles
At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. [...] Why is not someone else

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. While Thawte proclaims this is their

RE: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Lucky Green
James wrote: On 11 Jul 2002 at 1:22, Lucky Green wrote: Trusted roots have long been bought and sold on the secondary market as any other commodity. For surprisingly low amounts, you too can own a trusted root that comes pre-installed in 95% of all web browsers deployed. How