Re: [cobalt-security] self signed certificate warnings

["AYoung@Home" <ayoung78@xxxxxxxx>]

on 2/21/02 1:27 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> When Verisign first went into the business they earned their money; they
> went through a lot of hoops to make sure the company was who it says it
> was.
> 
> Now Thawte does less and charges less.  GeoTrust does still less and
> charges still less.
> 
> That seems to be a fair tradeoff.  If you want to have a cert from a
> U.S. company that knows who you are beyond a shadow of a doubt before
> issuing the cert, buy from Verisign, for somewhere around us$350 or so.
> If you want to buy from a South African company that does less in the
> way of due diligence and charges less, buy from Thawte for us$125.  If
> you want to buy a GeoTrust cert from a company that verifies you can be
> reached at your domain and that you have the rights to the domain as
> enumerated in your registrar's whois database, buy from me for us$99
> <smile>.
> 
Actually Thawte was bought out by Verisign in either 1999 or 2000.  You can
read about the Thawte/Verisign merger.

http://thawte.com/corporate/vsfaq.html

Alisa