Talk:Thawte

message: 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)
thread_title:  Could we add a pronunciation? 

message: 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
<begin signed tag or mimetype>
<digital signature for text after this tag>
message body
</digital signature for text after this tag>
</begin signed tag or mimetype>
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)
thread_title:  Discussion of how to encourage digitally signing emails 

message: 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)
thread_title: Web of Trust (WoT)

message: "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)
thread_title:  "Secure server" redirect okay? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Remove the "Web of Trust" section 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Change of ownership?