IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit

[Greg Broiles]

At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, jamesd at echeque.com 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 issuing certificates?

See <http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/sdata/200206/certca.html> for 
recent data re SSL certificate market share; Geotrust, at 
<http://www.geotrust.com>, has 11% of the market, and appears (from their 
web pages; I haven't bought one) to be ready to issue SSL server certs 
without the torturous document review process which Verisign invented but 
Thawte managed to make simultaneously more intrusive and less relevant.


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