[Gllug] Certificate authorities

[will]

timw wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:55:13AM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
>>>We install quite a few certs for people and Thawte seems pretty good
>>>(although I believe they are owned by verisign). I have had to call
>>>them up before now and it is quite easy getting through to speak to a
>>>human (who was helpful).
>>
>>Yep, Thawte were always the antithesis of the great evil that is Verisign.
>>They were helpful, easy to deal with, and generally did business in a fairly
>>ethical manner. Then Mark Shuttleworth sold the company off to Verisign for
>>excessive amounts of cash, which enabled him to buy his way into space. Hard
>>to argue with his logic, really, but it's a shame it turned out that way...
> 
> 
> Would you still recommend them?  Or have they been thoroughly assimilated?

They don't seem to have outwardly changed that much.  If I personally was going to get a cert I 
would use thawte so I suppose I recommend them :-)

Will.


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