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| Product type | Public key certificates |
|---|---|
| Owner | DigiCert Inc. |
| Country | South Africa |
| Introduced | 1995 |
| Markets | World |
| Website | www |
Thawte Consulting (pronounced "thought"[citation needed]) 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.[1]
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