About the Thawte Security System

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. Thawte has issued SSL certificates to more than 30% of the world’s active Internet e-commerce web servers and has issued tens of thousands of certificates for secure email and software distribution. 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.

Thawte Web Server SSL Certificates are used on more than 10,000 sites world wide. An independent survey found Thawte certificates on more than 30% of the active e-commerce servers on the net [Netcraft]. More than 90% of Fortune 500 companies use SSL security to protect their sensitive information.

Thawte SSL certificates are compatible with all recent browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and Netscape Communicator 4.x. Alessi Kitchenware maintains a browser compatibility list. More than 90% of the web browsers in use today will accept a Thawte certificate as proof of a web site’s identity.