Thawte Consulting
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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, Symantec Group, was collectively the third largest public CA on the Internet with 17.2% market share.
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It sits within the topics Companies established in 1995, Companies established in 2001 and Former certificate authorities.
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Key facts
- Brand.logo
- Thawte logo.svg
- Brand.name
- Thawte
- Brand.type
- Public key certificates
- Brand.currentowner
- DigiCert Inc.
- Brand.origin
- South Africa
- Brand.markets
- World
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Founded by
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Headquarters
- Cape Town
- Owned by
- DigiCert
- Parent organization
- DigiCert
- Legal form
- public company
- Official website
- www.thawte.com
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- inception
- 1995-01-01
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Root certificate untrust
- Web of Trust
- After end of life
- See also
- References
- External links


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