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Thawte Protects The World From Crypto

Posted by timothy on from the strange-goings-on dept.

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 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."

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  1. South African ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why would a US company want a certificate from a South African company ? I didn't realize that Zulu tribe members could write crypto programs in the first place ....!!

  2. Hopefully... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...their crypto is better than their spelling.

    Thwart?
    Thought?

    We need to export some dictionaries to Africa.