Thawte

Thawte is a company specializing in Internet security company based in Cape Town, South Africa.

The company was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth. In December 1999 it was gekauft.Die VeriSign acquisition for shares of VeriSign was completed in January 2000. In the daily business of VeriSign Thawte remained independent by their own account.

The main business field by Thawte is the assignment of digital certificates for various purposes as so-called certification authority (English Certification Authority, CA). It will be exhibited for example, web or email server server certificates (SSL / TLS). Thawte was by his own admission the first company that issued those certificates to places outside of the U.S..

Almost all modern e- mail clients and Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Outlook ( Express), Firefox or Thunderbird lead this CA can be trusted in its certificate database.

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