Thawte Protects The World From Crypto (was Re: [ Slashdot Message ] Daily Stories)

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 2:22 AM +0000 on 10/30/01, slashdot at slashdot.org wrote:


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> | Thawte Protects The World From Crypto                              |
> |   from the strange-goings-on dept.                                 |
> |   posted by timothy on Monday October 29, @06:28 (privacy)         |
> |   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/29/0028250              |
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> nutsaq writes: "Thawte.com, a South African Certificate Authority, in a
> move of astonishing wrong-headedness, has inexplicably changed it's
> developer certificate policy. To quote [0]from the site: 'Due to current
> world circumstances developer certificates can no longer be issued to
> individuals.'Sucks to be working with crypto these days. Apparently I'll
> get no help from Thawte to encrypt stuff, oh wait, I didn't need it, the
> browsers did."
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> Discuss this story at:
>     http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/10/29/0028250
>
> Links:
>     0. http://www.thawte.com/getinfo/products/devel/contents.html

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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'



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