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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. Hey, wasn't this in a science fiction short story? by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, I know that it was, because I wrote it for the Wipout competition, which is spookily enough another /. story of the day.

    I wrote this story in early September, pre-11th. It postulates a society where knowledge of crypto is so strongly controlled that... well, read the story.

    At the time that I wrote it, it was science fiction. It now looks like I was way too conservative, and events are already on the way towards overtaking my predictions. Hey ho.

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  2. Good to stop those induhviduals! by Metrol · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now only real companies, like the MANY that bin Laden's network runs, can get encryption tools.

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