>>>>> "John" == John R Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx> writes:
John> The CAs that people use in web SSL are overwhelmingly signed
John> by Verisign or its subsidiaries like Thawte. Geotrust is a
John> distant second.
John> I honestly don't know what signers people use for STARTTLS
John> but since everyone uses the same small set of TLS libraries,
John> my working assumption is that they use the same small set of
John> authorities, too.
OK. If this is just an assumption and not backed by evidence, I would
suspect that outside of the web you see a lot less use of the big CAs.
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