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by agwa 3y ago
Author here. Happy to answer any questions!
- dsr_ 3y agoYou missed a fun bit here: "What about "Baltimore"? That's short for Baltimore Technologies, a now-defunct infosec company, who acquired GTE's certificate authority subsidiary (named CyberTrust) in 2000, which they then sold to a company named Betrusted in 2003, which merged with TruSecure in 2004, who rebranded back to CyberTrust, which was then acquired by Verizon in 2007, who then sold the private keys for their root certificates to DigiCert in 2015. So "Baltimore" hasn't been accurate since 2003, and the true owner has changed four times since then." The dance in between that you missed: CyberTrust was part of BBN; GTE bought BBN in 1997. Later GTE bought a small datacenter operator called Genuity. Then GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon, spinning off Genuity, selling much of the network to L3, and selling BBN Technologies to Raytheon. When Verizon bought Betrusted/TruSecure/Cybertrust in 2007, that was buying back a chunk of its previous self.