Talk:Thawte

Could we add a pronunciation?
We have a debate going here at the office of how to pronounce the name of Thawte (Thaw-t or Thought-ee). I was going to ask their sales support on how to say it correctly, but only if others see value in it. Obviously I would use Wikipedia's pronunciation/phonetic syntax to mark it up for the final version. Comments? Thanks. --134.84.164.49 (talk) 17:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

You might want to listen here (http://www.forvo.com/word/thawte/) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.25.222.198 (talk) 08:40, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Having the pronunciation would be good Sydney.aniedobe (talk) 12:10, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion of how to encourage digitally signing emails
I think it's fair to say that digitally signing emails is currently the domain of the extremely early adopter. It certainly hasn't hit the mainstream yet. I'd like to lay out a plan (based in the UK) to kickstart interest. The ultimate goal would be that large companies would digitally sign their emails when sending them to their customers. We hear so much about phishing scams these days, at least with a digitally signed email customers could be confident about where the email came from. I'd like to see digitally signed email become as ubiquitous as https certificates for online retailers.

Anyway, the advantage to consumers is clear. Here's my plan on how to kickstart mainstream adoption of email digital signatures, to be carried out by a company such as Thawte or Verisign:

Step 1 - Give Tesco (biggest supermarket in the UK) and Amazon.co.uk (very big e-retailer in the UK) a free email signing certificate. That's not enough, though. Provide a free consultant for however long it takes to get the email signing working on all the bulk emails sent by these companies. This is the expensive part of the plan!

Step 2 - The problem is that webmail providers don't support digital signatures, and that most users use webmail. Now that many reputable bulk emails are being sent out by Tesco and Amazon, apply pressure to hotmail.com, gmail.com, Yahoo Mail and other mainstream email providers to support digital signatures on received messages only (we'll deal with the more difficult problem of supporting sending digitally signed messages later). The aim is to get a lock icon to appear on an email from Tesco when the user views it from Hotmail. The driving force is that this is in the interest of public Internet security, as such you will receive media attention. Phishing scams are hitting the headlines regularly.

Step 3 - Repeat step 1 to increase the pressure on email providers describe in step 2. Continue until email providers support digital signatures on incoming messages.

Step 4 - Once Tesco is sending secure emails, wait until the news gets to Sainsburys, ASDA (other supermarket chains in the UK).


 * It could happen with webmail providers if there was a firefox addon (and one for the ie [l]users)

It would be outside the standards (because it would have to be within the body, eg: subject: xxxx

  message body  

Also this may interest you: Message Level Authentication for WebMail https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3203/

75.131.225.96 18:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Web of Trust (WoT)
I think a discussion of Thawte's web of trust would be appropriate. Would someone more familiar with the system like to write it (or at least peer-review what I write?). Web of Trust Info Page Tvh2k 17:34, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I think this section (Web of Trust)should potentially be removed as it is lightly sourced and does not seem to be a notable part of the Thawte story.PKIhistory (talk) 14:41, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

"Secure server" redirect okay?
"Shuttleworth's original project was to produce a secure server ..." --- I wanted to make secure server a wikilink. Secure server currently redirects to Https. (1) Is this redirect correct overall? (2) Would it be an appropriate redirect for secure server in the Thawte article? Thanks. 201.51.211.130 21:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

It's not totally wrong but it's not quite right either. You might want to see if there's something more appropriate along the lines of "SSL Protocol"? Https is just the prefix for a secure site, it doesn't have any real meaning on its own. Meldh 22:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Remove the "Web of Trust" section
I think we should remove it because it doesn't exist anymore. It's an "old thing". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.90.4.89 (talk) 14:30, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree with this.PKIhistory (talk) 14:43, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

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Change of ownership?
According to the DigiCert page Thawte has been aquired by DigiCert in August 2017. Is there anyone who's planning to add this piece of information?

Tedfroehlich (talk) 10:50, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Resolved, thanks to User:PKIhistory!

Tedfroehlich (talk) 21:43, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Tedfroehlich Can you take a look at a stub I posted in my sandbox on Sectigo. I am looking for feedback. There are other industry ownership changes which I think result in updating or creating a new page/ stub.PKIhistory (talk) 17:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, PKIhistory, where can I read your sandbox? I tried a few places and did not find anything. Though I have been with Wikipedia for some time, up to now I had not much communication with other users. So, please give me s hint... ;-) Tedfroehlich (talk) 19:23, 3 September 2021 (UTC)