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Thawte Protects The World From Crypto (was Re: [ Slashdot Message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Oct 30 10:45:49 2001
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:07:36 -0500
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 2:22 AM +0000 on 10/30/01, slashdot@slashdot.org wrote:
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> | Thawte Protects The World From Crypto |
> | from the strange-goings-on dept. |
> | posted by timothy on Monday October 29, @06:28 (privacy) |
> | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/29/0028250 |
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> nutsaq writes: "Thawte.com, a South African Certificate Authority, in a
> move of astonishing wrong-headedness, has inexplicably changed it's
> developer certificate policy. To quote [0]from the site: 'Due to current
> world circumstances developer certificates can no longer be issued to
> individuals.'Sucks to be working with crypto these days. Apparently I'll
> get no help from Thawte to encrypt stuff, oh wait, I didn't need it, the
> browsers did."
>
> Discuss this story at:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/10/29/0028250
>
> Links:
> 0. http://www.thawte.com/getinfo/products/devel/contents.html
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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