Thawte Digital Certificate Services Thawte Certification is a global provider of digital certificate products, services and solutions that create security, privacy and authentication in electronic commerce. Thawte offers a range of certificate solutions that encompass Internet security, Extranet security, email security and Enterprise PKI requirements. Thawte was started in 1995 and is now the second largest Internet Certificate Authority worldwide, with offices in both the United States and South Africa, and representation in more than 22 countries. Recently, Thawte successfully entered the Enterprise market with the deployment of its Strong Extranet and Chained CA technologies.
Digital certificates are a crucial part of the trust model behind electronic commerce services.
They combine the ease of use of password based access control with the security of public key cryptography. Thawte offers digital certificates that are trusted by all major browser and mail applications from Microsoft, Netscape and other vendors, along with outstanding local service and support. This, combined with an aggressive pricing strategy, has made Thawte the Internet CA of choice in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. For an annual fee Thawte will sign an organization s root CA certificate, making it part of the Thawte Trust Hierarchy. Any certificates issued by the company will be recognized wherever the Thawte roots are deployed.