{"id":397,"date":"2009-10-16T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marc.storck.lu\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2009-10-16T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:05:34","slug":"thawte-shutting-down-web-of-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marc.storck.lu\/blog\/2009\/10\/thawte-shutting-down-web-of-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Thawte shutting down Web of Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a Thawte Notary since January 15th, 2002 with the ability to assign 35 trust points. In 2002 I had to go the hard way via the trusted third party program as there were no Thawte Notaries in or around Luxembourg. During over 7 years I didn&#8217;t get to assure the identity of a lot of persons, only 9 in fact.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today Thawte will shutdown the Web of Trust Program. This is part of a process started after Thawte for acquired by Verisign.<\/p>\n<p>I really loved the Community aspects of WoT, that&#8217;s why I joind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacert.org\" target=\"_blank\">CAcert<\/a> sometime after joining Thawte. CAcert is a community driven Certificate Authority, which offers the ability to transfer your trusted status from Thawte to CAcert. As Thawte intends to shutdown the Freemail Certifacte service as well, it&#8217;s probably the only way to keep some kind of free email signing certificate.<\/p>\n<p>CAcert, unfortunately, is not yet integrated into web browser like Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer. Therefor, you need to teach your browser to trust the certificates from CAcert, which you can do with 2 clicks on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cacert.org\/index.php?id=3\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So hurry and get your Thawte points converted to CAcert before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a Thawte Notary since January 15th, 2002 with the ability to assign 35 trust points. 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