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Thawte: History, Regions & Companies

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 30 December 2016, its then-parent company, Symantec Group, was collectively the third largest public CA on the Internet with 17.2% market share.

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Thawte topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Regions and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Thawte.

Related topics
26
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
30
Extracted relationships
70
Concept neighborhoods
10
Bridge connections
30

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 16 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Web of Trust · 4 topics
Root certificate untrust · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
DigiCert Inc.
Country
South Africa
Introduced
1995; 31 years ago (1995)
Markets
World
Product type
Public key certificates

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Root certificate untrust

Web of Trust

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Thawte connects Entity context

The extracted context around Thawte shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Thawte → Apache HTTP, Before Verisign's, Both Verisign, In, January, July, Mark Shuttleworth's, Netscape, Shuttleworth, Sioux, Stronghold, The, United States, US, Verisign, Verisign's, Y2K Another extracted example is Thawte → CAcert, Gossamer Spider Web, GSWoT, List, November, OpenPGP PKI, Thawte Notaries, Thawte Notary, Thawte Web, Thawte's Web, The, The Thawte WoT Notaries, Trust, Trust Notary, Trust Notary Map, WoT. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Thawte

Top relations

related to history · 17
Thawte → Apache HTTP, Before Verisign's, Both Verisign, In, January, July, Mark Shuttleworth's, Netscape, Shuttleworth, Sioux, Stronghold, The, United States, US, Verisign, Verisign's, Y2K
related to After end of life · 16
Thawte → CAcert, Gossamer Spider Web, GSWoT, List, November, OpenPGP PKI, Thawte Notaries, Thawte Notary, Thawte Web, Thawte's Web, The, The Thawte WoT Notaries, Trust, Trust Notary, Trust Notary Map, WoT
related to Web of Trust · 15
Thawte → Although, Associating, In, Notaries, November, Points, So, Thawte FreeMail, Thawte Notaries, Thawte Web, The, The Thawte Web, To, Trust, Web
related to Root certificate untrust · 12
Thawte → August, Certificate, December, DigiCert, DigiCert Trusted Root TLS, Following Thawte's, From, GeoTrust Root Certificate, Google, Symantec's, This, Thoma Bravo LLC
related to External links · 2
Thawte → GermanyThawte France, Official
Country · 1
Thawte → South Africa
Introduced · 1
Thawte → 1995; 31 years ago (1995)
Markets · 1
Thawte → World
Owner · 1
Thawte → DigiCert Inc.
Product type · 1
Thawte → Public key certificates

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

certificate web certificates trust could points notary notaries digicert email person person's account shuttleworth public freemail needed ca root see

Thawte relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 70 structured relationships around Thawte. Examples in this analysis include Thawte → Country → South Africa and Thawte → Introduced → 1995; 31 years ago (1995). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ThawteCountrySouth Africa1.00infobox
ThawteIntroduced1995; 31 years ago (1995)1.00infobox
ThawteMarketsWorld1.00infobox
ThawteOwnerDigiCert Inc.1.00infobox
ThawteProduct typePublic key certificates1.00infobox
ThawteWebsitewww.thawte.com1.00infobox
Thawtefounded in19950.95text
Thawtefounded byMark Shuttleworth in South Africa0.90text
Thawterelated to After end of lifeThawte Notaries0.60section
Thawterelated to After end of lifeGossamer Spider Web0.60section
Thawterelated to After end of lifeTrust0.60section
Thawterelated to After end of lifeGSWoT0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Thawte bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Web, Trust and Notaries. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • certificate authority
    • Ca
    • Certificates
    • Key
    • Root
    • Free
    • Needed
    • Thawte
    • Account
    • Digicert
    • Email
    • Address
    • Business
  • certificate
    • Certificates
    • Key
    • Root
    • Thawte
    • Account
    • Digicert
    • Email
    • Address
    • Business
    • Needed
    • One
    • Public
  • web of trust
    • Trust
    • Web
    • Thawte
    • Free
    • Identity
    • Certificates
    • Email
    • Digicert
    • Notaries
    • Notary
    • Gswot
    • Name
  • root certificate untrust
    • Digicert
    • Certificates
    • Key
    • Root
    • Thawte
    • Account
    • Email
    • See
    • Address
    • Business
    • Needed
    • One
  • Thawte
    • Web
    • Trust
    • Notaries
    • Freemail
    • Email
    • Notary
    • Points
    • Business
    • Free
    • Gswot
    • Identity
    • Security
  • thawte
    • Web
    • Trust
    • Notaries
    • Freemail
    • Email
    • Notary
    • Points
    • Business
    • Free
    • Gswot
    • Identity
    • Security
  • web browsers
    • Trust
    • Thawte
    • Certificates
    • Free
    • Identity
    • Digicert
    • Email
    • Notaries
    • Notary
    • Authority
    • Gswot
    • Key
  • digicert
    • Root
    • Business
    • Key
    • Public
    • Security
    • See
    • Web
    • Thawte
    • Trust

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Thawte, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Thawte with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Thawte — History · splits 14 ⟂ 17
Thawte — Overview · splits 26 ⟂ 5
Thawte — Web of Trust · splits 26 ⟂ 5
Thawte — Root certificate untrust · splits 28 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Thawte

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples70
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Thawte to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Regions & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Thawte · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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