Report Description

This report, much like our original certs and CAs report, focuses on issuers of SSL enabling certificates found on web servers. Unlike our original report, however, this report has a couple of key differences to it:

• Reports on top 100 CAs. The original report only paid attention to the major CAs at the time the report was produced. This report lists the top 100 CAs for the month. You will find here many self-signing organizations such as universities, telecommunications firms, etc.
• Uses issuer name as identifier. Our original report only counted a certificate towards an organization if we were able to prove, by virtue of verifying the key, that the organization in question actually signed the certificate. This had a notable problem with it - we don't always have the public key of the CA. In at least one case, a CA doesn't make their public key available unless you sign a license agreement.

  This report doesn't have that problem, since it doesn't verify the signatures of the certificates it finds, it only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA	December 2000 Count	December 2000 %	November 2000 Count	November 2000 %	Growth %
Verisign	27,995	55.71	33,117	57.55	-3.20
Thawte	16,498	32.83	18,024	31.32	4.82
Snake Oil, Ltd	881	1.75	937	1.63	7.67
Equifax Secure Inc	761	1.51	836	1.45	4.24
SomeOrganization	241	0.48	34	0.06	711.68
Unknown	160	0.32	177	0.31	3.51
Entrust.net	145	0.29	170	0.30	-2.33
Esat Net	113	0.22	116	0.20	11.55
CETI s.c.	78	0.16	78	0.14	14.51
U.S. Government	72	0.14	83	0.14	-0.67
Corpex Ltd	70	0.14	71	0.12	12.90
Franke & Partner	59	0.12	61	0.11	10.76
Netland Internet Services	51	0.10	50	0.09	16.80
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	48	0.10	41	0.07	34.06
Thawte Certification	40	0.08	57	0.10	-19.64
Nordwest.Net	36	0.07	36	0.06	14.51
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	35	0.07	35	0.06	14.51
Vest Internett	31	0.06	31	0.05	14.51
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	30	0.06	36	0.06	-4.57
Webmaster	28	0.06	24	0.04	33.60
Kubota Systems Inc.	28	0.06	27	0.05	18.75
Indra's Net, Inc.	27	0.05	27	0.05	14.51
University of Florida	26	0.05	26	0.05	14.51
Alleanza I.T.B.	24	0.05	24	0.04	14.51
Linux Test Server	23	0.05	24	0.04	9.74
BSG	23	0.05	22	0.04	19.72
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.04	20	0.03	14.51
Webkeepers Limited	19	0.04	19	0.03	14.51
Test Organisation	19	0.04	19	0.03	14.51
ANET St. Louis	19	0.04	20	0.03	8.78
Inter Clear Service Ltd	18	0.04	18	0.03	14.51
UUNET UK	17	0.03	18	0.03	8.15
SCNC	17	0.03	18	0.03	8.15
Aktiv!NETZ Internet Presentations GmbH	17	0.03	17	0.03	14.51
ProSalg as	16	0.03	12	0.02	52.68
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	16	0.03	20	0.03	-8.39
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	16	0.03	16	0.03	14.51
IndyWeb Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	14.51
For Demo Purposes Only	16	0.03	19	0.03	-3.57
Deutsche Telekom AG	15	0.03	16	0.03	7.35
comDesign	14	0.03	14	0.02	14.51
Spekter Bergen AS	14	0.03	14	0.02	14.51
Digital Visions	14	0.03	14	0.02	14.51
Wantree Internet	12	0.02	12	0.02	14.51
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	12	0.02	12	0.02	14.51
Media3 Inc	12	0.02	7	0.01	96.30
ITBS OnLine	12	0.02	13	0.02	5.70
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	12	0.02	18	0.03	-23.66
Algarvenet	12	0.02	12	0.02	14.51
Oy Multi.fi Finland Ab Ltd.	11	0.02	11	0.02	14.51
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	11	0.02	12	0.02	4.97
GlobalSign nv-sa	11	0.02	9	0.02	39.96
Estore Corp	11	0.02	11	0.02	14.51
Cybermarket	11	0.02	11	0.02	14.51
CyberGate Inc.	11	0.02	14	0.02	-10.03
phpwebhosting.com	10	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
i-Planet	10	0.02	11	0.02	4.10
WebNexus Communications	10	0.02	10	0.02	14.51
Swisskey AG	10	0.02	9	0.02	27.23
Radio Data Group Inc	10	0.02	10	0.02	14.51
the Internet Outlet	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
dgSoft Internet Sevices	9	0.02	10	0.02	3.06
University of Oulu	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
University of Maryland	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
University of Economics and BA	9	0.02	11	0.02	-6.31
USMC	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
Interzona.net srl	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
Inficad Computing and Design	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
CyberGate	9	0.02	9	0.02	14.51
University of Helsinki	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
Netalia Internet Ltd	8	0.02	9	0.02	1.79
National Institutes of Health	8	0.02	10	0.02	-8.39
NECTEC	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
Monteuve	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
GTM Internet, Inc.	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
GTE Corporation	8	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
CyberGate, Inc.	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
A&S Systemtechnik	8	0.02	8	0.01	14.51
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	7	0.01	7	0.01	14.51
Tampere University of Technology	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Netlink, Inc.	7	0.01	7	0.01	14.51
Netland Oy	7	0.01	7	0.01	14.51
Kommunedata	7	0.01	7	0.01	14.51
IPS Seguridad CA	7	0.01	8	0.01	0.20
FUN Kommunikationssysteme GmbH	7	0.01	7	0.01	14.51
Extend.net	7	0.01	7	0.01	14.51
CompuSource (Pty) Ltd	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
trash.net	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Xtended Internet	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Web Anchor, Inc.	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Versaggi Information Systems Inc	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Universitaet Marburg	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
UBZ	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Ronchiato Group S.r.l.	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
KPNQwest Czechia s.r.o	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Irenyx Data Group	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Eurosur Telecom, S.L.	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Dialtone Internet	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A

Note: Readers are cautioned that the Growth percentages are based on a CA's market share penetration rather than the absolute number of certificates we detected. Thus, it is possible for the number of certificates to increase, while the growth is actually a negative value.