[Gllug] Certificate authorities

[timw]

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?

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