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	February 2002 Count	February 2002 %	January 2002 Count	January 2002 %	Growth %
Verisign	31,334	42.36	30,485	43.56	-2.76
Thawte	24,491	33.11	23,803	34.01	-2.66
Equifax Secure Inc	6,678	9.03	5,372	7.68	17.60
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,719	2.32	1,461	2.09	11.31
Unknown	1,108	1.50	930	1.33	12.71
Entrust.net	763	1.03	648	0.93	11.39
SomeOrganization	613	0.83	591	0.84	-1.88
U.S. Government	397	0.54	320	0.46	17.36
Equifax (Geotrust)	198	0.27	96	0.14	95.11
Plesk Inc.	187	0.25	141	0.20	25.46
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	107	0.14	96	0.14	5.44
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	99	0.13	100	0.14	-6.34
The USERTRUST Network	76	0.10	59	0.08	21.86
Thawte Certification	74	0.10	79	0.11	-11.39
*.ceti.pl	71	0.10	71	0.10	-5.40
Kubota Systems Inc.	66	0.09	63	0.09	-0.89
GlobalSign nv-sa	63	0.09	55	0.08	8.36
Esat Net	63	0.09	75	0.11	-20.54
GTE Corporation	62	0.08	50	0.07	17.31
Franke & Partner	55	0.07	54	0.08	-3.65
Advanced Extranet Server	51	0.07	45	0.06	7.21
BSG	49	0.07	50	0.07	-7.29
Ipswitch,Inc.	48	0.06	41	0.06	10.75
Ring Datacom	46	0.06	66	0.09	-34.07
NeoNova B.V.	42	0.06	43	0.06	-7.60
Ensim Corporation	42	0.06	36	0.05	10.37
zNET Internet Services	41	0.06	41	0.06	-5.40
Deutsche Telekom AG	40	0.05	32	0.05	18.25
SCNC	32	0.04	34	0.05	-10.96
University of Florida	29	0.04	28	0.04	-2.02
Webmaster	28	0.04	28	0.04	-5.40
Onyx Internet	28	0.04	29	0.04	-8.66
Deep Industry	27	0.04	26	0.04	-1.76
DeZines Web Hosting	23	0.03	24	0.03	-9.34
ispgateway	22	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
UUNET UK	22	0.03	22	0.03	-5.40
Indra's Net, Inc.	22	0.03	24	0.03	-13.28
Stargate Industries, LLC	21	0.03	23	0.03	-13.63
Linux Test Server	20	0.03	22	0.03	-14.00
Interliant, Inc.	20	0.03	27	0.04	-29.93
helpdesk.powercom.net	19	0.03	19	0.03	-5.40
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.	19	0.03	17	0.02	5.73
Radio Data Group Inc	18	0.02	19	0.03	-10.38
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	18	0.02	17	0.02	0.17
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	18	0.02	19	0.03	-10.38
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	17	0.02	18	0.03	-10.65
University of Maryland	15	0.02	14	0.02	1.36
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	15	0.02	13	0.02	9.16
Inter Clear Service Ltd	15	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
University of Helsinki	14	0.02	12	0.02	10.37
NIH	14	0.02	11	0.02	20.40
Idonex AB	13	0.02	16	0.02	-23.14
Estore Corp	13	0.02	12	0.02	2.48
comDesign	12	0.02	10	0.01	13.52
IPrimus USA	12	0.02	12	0.02	-5.40
Certipor S.A.	12	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	11	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Superb Internet Corp.	11	0.01	11	0.02	-5.40
Schell Computersysteme	11	0.01	11	0.02	-5.40
Oy Multi.fi Finland Ab Ltd.	11	0.01	11	0.02	-5.40
ICU INTERNET CARIBBEAN UNLIMITED	11	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Barak ITC	11	0.01	13	0.02	-19.95
International Business Machines Corporation	10	0.01	9	0.01	5.11
IndyWeb Inc.	10	0.01	12	0.02	-21.17
Cybermarket	10	0.01	11	0.02	-14.00
A&S Systemtechnik	10	0.01	10	0.01	-5.40
Webmin Software	9	0.01	7	0.01	21.63
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	9	0.01	8	0.01	6.43
Universitaet Heidelberg	9	0.01	7	0.01	21.63
IPS Seguridad CA	9	0.01	9	0.01	-5.40
IMS	9	0.01	8	0.01	6.43
WebNexus Communications	8	0.01	8	0.01	-5.40
Web Hosting	8	0.01	30	0.04	-74.77
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	8	0.01	6	0.01	26.13
USMC	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Tampere University of Technology	8	0.01	8	0.01	-5.40
Sun Microsystems Inc	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
SYLABA Internet	8	0.01	8	0.01	-5.40
Iquent	8	0.01	7	0.01	8.12
Interzona.net srl	8	0.01	7	0.01	8.12
Globalnet	8	0.01	8	0.01	-5.40
debis Systemhaus Oesterreich GmbH	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
WEB.DE AG	7	0.01	7	0.01	-5.40
University of Waterloo	7	0.01	7	0.01	-5.40
Stalker Software, Inc.	7	0.01	7	0.01	-5.40
Logical Net Corp	7	0.01	7	0.01	-5.40
Deutsches Forschungsnetz	7	0.01	8	0.01	-17.22
Columbia University	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
the Internet Outlet	6	0.01	7	0.01	-18.91
Your Organization	6	0.01	6	0.01	-5.40
WebMoney Transfer	6	0.01	11	0.02	-48.40
Wantree Internet	6	0.01	6	0.01	-5.40
Verein trash.net	6	0.01	6	0.01	-5.40
Uppsala universitet	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Swisskey AG	6	0.01	8	0.01	-29.05
ProSalg as	6	0.01	8	0.01	-29.05
PVT a.s.	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
INFN	6	0.01	8	0.01	-29.05
IKS GmbH	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.