Книга: Thawte: Certificate Authority, X.509, Mark Shuttleworth, Internet, Export of Cryptography, Apache HTTP Server, Netscape, Public Key Certificate, Space Tourism, Web of Trust

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thawte Consulting is a certificate authority (CA) for X.509 certificates. Thawte was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa and is the second largest public CA on the Internet. Thawte was originally run from Shuttleworth's parents' garage. Shuttleworth's original project was to produce a secure server not fettered by the restrictions on the export of cryptography which had been imposed by the U.S. The server, Sioux, was an adaptation of the Apache HTTP server it was later integrated with the Stronghold web server as Thawte began to concentrate more on their certification activities.