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Yes On August 9, 2010, Symantec completed its approximately $1.28 billion acquisition of Verisign's authentication business, including the Secure Sockets Layer
by adolph 2y ago
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On August 9, 2010, Symantec completed its approximately $1.28 billion acquisition of Verisign's authentication business, including the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, the Verisign Trust Services, the Verisign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service, and the majority stake in Verisign Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign
- omarfarooq 2y agoThat's based on verifiable cryptography.
- d0gsg0w00f 2y agoYeah, but someone has to first trust the signer. I can start a CA tomorrow, doesn't mean anyone will put my root on their OS distro.
- adolph 2y agoThe crypto is the middle part. "certificates of authenticity" have to cover the top and bottom ends. The sibling comment referred to the top. At the bottom, Verisign had a DUNS and payment dance that had more appearance than substance in determining authenticity.