Gee,
Before I get flamed for the Subject:
Of course, Verisign and Thawte are American and South African
companies, so cannot be a monopoly(Two American companies
doing this likely would), and of course NSI, the major marketer of
Versign certs, is a registrar for domains, and this cannot be
considered as a monopoly either.
First I've heard any comments on the list, and I've been listening for
a while now.
You may want to check out the project forming at
http://www.freecert.org
Bill Laakkonen
On 28 Mar 00, at 10:30, Tariq Habib wrote:
> I fully support your point of view.
>
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> > I just found out that Verising has aquired NSI. A short while back they
> > aquired Thawte .
> >
> >
> >
> > I think some of us should be looking into ways to get certs from a "real"
> > competitor to Verisign recognized by IE and Netscape.
> >
> > I know that netscape allows easy importation of a cert and that IE is a
> > bit of a bugger - but for the vast majority of the great unwashed public
> > they need a "clean" simple and brain-dead solution or they will continue
> > to go with the flow.
> >
> > Consentration of economic power like we see in Verisign at this point is
> > NEVER healthy - or am I overreacting?
> >
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