[Cryptography] Well, that showed them!

[Henry Baker]

At 04:05 AM 2/26/2020, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>I was writing a small followup on Symantec as an example of TB2F CAs, and
>wondered what had happened after they were distrusted by browsers.  Looks like
>the timeline was:
>
>Symantec gets distrusted.
>
>Symantec, valued at just under a billion dollars *after the debacle* sells its
>  business to DigiCert, and things continue as before ("DigiCert Closes
>  Acquisition of Symantec's Website SSL Security Unit", eWeek, October 2017 /
>  "Symantec Selling SSL Security Business to DigiCert for $950M", eWeek,
>  August 2017).
>
>DigiCert gets a massive investment from private equity firms ("DigiCert Gets
>  New Investment Post Symantec SSL Acquisition", ChannelFutures, July 2019) /
>  "Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates to Make a Strategic Growth
>  Investment in DigiCert", ThomaBravo, July 2019).
>
>You simply cannot fail in the TB2F CA racket.  In particular Symantec didn't
>actually fail, it just changed the name on the letterhead and came back even
>stronger than before.
>
>Let that be a lesson to all other CAs!

Re: TB2F, etc.:

And everyone is still wondering why Bernie is surging...  Duh!

I expect that the .org sale won't generate a lot of concern until it's too late...