Thawte

Thawte
Product typePublic key certificates
OwnerDigiCert Inc.
CountrySouth Africa
Introduced1995 (1995)
MarketsWorld
Websitewww.thawte.com

Thawte Consulting (pronounced "thought") is a certificate authority (CA) for X.509 certificates. Thawte was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa. As of December 30, 2016, its then-parent company, Symantec Group, was collectively the third largest public CA on the Internet with 17.2% market share.

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