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Offline nmb

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Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« on: October 06, 2009, 05:47:46 PM »
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"Thawte is ending their Web of Trust, including their free Personal Email Certificates, in less than 2 weeks' time. This hasn't been picked up by the media yet. Seems to me a lot of people, including myself, are hurt by this."

https://search.thawte.com/support/ssl-digital-certificates/index?page=content&id=SO12658

if the above link is not working, try this


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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 05:57:12 PM »
I wouldn't call this a good news. I've been using their free certs for a while. Oh I can't get the Thawte link to work  ??? but I trust the source. Remain Comodo free certs, but there's no possible management of them like with Thawte; there's also sofware to generate your own self-signed (so not trusted obviously, but no big deal), but I never tried. Thawte was a perfect solution.

 I'll login to their site and see if I can find anything...
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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2009, 05:58:54 PM »
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Oh I can't get the Thawte link to work

I have edited my post, check the alternative one.
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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 06:01:25 PM »
yep, sounds genuine. Funny though as they still allow new enrollments for free mail cert, I just checked. And why were the original pages removed ?
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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 06:03:29 PM »
did you see this :

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Click here to receive answers to questions you may have with regard to enrolment for and installation of your free VeriSign Email Certificate:https://search.thawte.com/support/ssl-digital-certificates/index?page=content&id=SO12704
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Hermite15

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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 06:07:52 PM »
Quote from: nmb on October 06, 2009, 06:03:29 PM
did you see this :

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Click here to receive answers to questions you may have with regard to enrolment for and installation of your free VeriSign Email Certificate:https://search.thawte.com/support/ssl-digital-certificates/index?page=content&id=SO12704

yes I saw the link but didn't read further, thought it was the original FAQ or something, will take a look now...

edit: no I misread your post first, I didn't see that link; the page seems to confirm everything.
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Hermite15

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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2009, 06:20:31 PM »
I read the page you linked to but I can't find the link to it when I'm logged in.
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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2009, 05:44:09 PM »
They are giving one year free with their "takeover" firm Vera-Sign.
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Re: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On...
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2009, 05:54:58 PM »
Quote from: Corday on November 10, 2009, 05:44:09 PM
They are giving one year free with their "takeover" firm Vera-Sign.

yeah, I would rather have kept my thawte thing a couple of years more instead  ;)
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