Re: [cobalt-security] self signed certificate warnings

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

on 2/21/02 8:10 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> "AYoung@Home" wrote:
> 
>> Actually Thawte was bought out by Verisign in either 1999 or 2000.  You can
>> read about the Thawte/Verisign merger.
> 
> So?
> 
> Does this change anything I wrote?  Or is it additional information
> <smile>?
> 

Was just an FYI snippet.


> Certainly they operate completely independently.  The spammer from
> Thawte is most likely in South Africa according to the U.S. office.
> Support comes ONLY from South Africa, so forget the time-zone difference
> <frown>.
> 
I have both Verisign and Thawte certs and my assigned support person for my
Thawte cert is in North Carolina and has always been responsive both via
email and phone.

Alisa