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Thawte Consulting
Thawte Consulting (pronounced "thought") is a certificate authority (CA) for X.509 certificates. Thawte was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa. As of December 30, 2016, its then-parent company, NortonLifeLock, Symantec Group, was collectively the third largest public CA on the Internet with 17.2% market share. History Thawte was originally run from Mark Shuttleworth's parents' garage. Shuttleworth aimed to produce a secure server not fettered by the restrictions on the export of cryptography which had been Export of cryptography in the United States, imposed by the United States. The server, Sioux, was a Fork (software development), fork of the Apache HTTP server; it was later integrated with the Stronghold (software), Stronghold web server as Thawte began to concentrate more on their certification activities. In 1999, Verisign acquired Thawte in a stock purchase from Shuttleworth for United States dollar, US $575 million. Both Verisign and Thawte had cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Key Certificate
In cryptography, a public key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the validity of a Key authentication, public key. The certificate includes the public key and information about it, information about the identity of its owner (called the subject), and the digital signature of an entity that has verified the certificate's contents (called the issuer). If the device examining the certificate trusts the issuer and finds the signature to be a valid signature of that issuer, then it can use the included public key to communicate securely with the certificate's subject. In email encryption, code signing, and Electronic signature, e-signature systems, a certificate's subject is typically a person or organization. However, in Transport Layer Security (TLS) a certificate's subject is typically a computer or other device, though TLS certificates may identify organizations or individuals in addition to their core rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
