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	July 2003 Count	July 2003 %	June 2003 Count	June 2003 %	Growth %
Verisign	59,590	42.23	49,375	42.96	-1.70
Thawte	32,528	23.05	27,885	24.26	-4.99
Equifax (Geotrust)	18,615	13.19	16,128	14.03	-5.99
Comodo Limited	5,281	3.74	3,382	2.94	27.19
Snake Oil, Ltd	2,121	1.50	1,860	1.62	-7.12
SomeOrganization	1,761	1.25	1,326	1.15	8.17
Entrust.net	1,670	1.18	637	0.55	113.54
U.S. Government	936	0.66	843	0.73	-9.56
The USERTRUST Network	584	0.41	453	0.39	5.01
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	521	0.37	0	0.00	N/A
Plesk, Inc.	463	0.33	315	0.27	19.72
Plesk Inc.	454	0.32	443	0.39	-16.53
Unknown	323	0.23	228	0.20	15.39
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	300	0.21	236	0.21	3.54
FreeSSL	288	0.20	150	0.13	56.39
Equifax Secure Inc	266	0.19	260	0.23	-16.67
GlobalSign nv-sa	234	0.17	176	0.15	8.29
Ipswitch,Inc.	171	0.12	130	0.11	7.14
GTE Corporation	168	0.12	125	0.11	9.47
Deutsche Telekom AG	148	0.10	122	0.11	-1.19
Thawte Certification	130	0.09	117	0.10	-9.50
ispgateway	103	0.07	92	0.08	-8.81
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	79	0.06	61	0.05	5.49
Advanced Extranet Server	78	0.06	72	0.06	-11.76
Kubota Systems Inc.	74	0.05	92	0.08	-34.48
Digital Signature Trust Co.	58	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
CETI	53	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
PKI Partner AB	51	0.04	43	0.04	-3.39
SOGO KEIBI HOSHO CO.LTD	46	0.03	29	0.03	29.20
Positive Software	46	0.03	36	0.03	4.08
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.	46	0.03	29	0.03	29.20
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd.	42	0.03	25	0.02	36.84
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	40	0.03	22	0.02	48.09
Beocity	40	0.03	38	0.03	-14.26
community musician	39	0.03	39	0.03	-18.55
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	39	0.03	35	0.03	-9.24
Ensim Corporation	39	0.03	36	0.03	-11.76
Deutsches Forschungsnetz	38	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
University of Florida	37	0.03	34	0.03	-11.36
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	35	0.02	24	0.02	18.78
NeoNova B.V.	35	0.02	21	0.02	35.75
Webmin Software	34	0.02	30	0.03	-7.69
WebMoney Transfer	34	0.02	11	0.01	151.76
XYZ Corporation	33	0.02	30	0.03	-10.40
SCNC	33	0.02	31	0.03	-13.29
Tele Danmark	29	0.02	26	0.02	-9.15
Franke & Partner	29	0.02	29	0.03	-18.55
IceWarp Software	28	0.02	19	0.02	20.03
Stalker Software, Inc.	27	0.02	16	0.01	37.45
Cologroup	26	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Your Organization	25	0.02	15	0.01	35.75
KICA	25	0.02	20	0.02	1.81
Onyx Internet	24	0.02	19	0.02	2.89
HJ.NET	23	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.	23	0.02	22	0.02	-14.85
University of Maryland	21	0.01	21	0.02	-18.55
Sun Microsystems Inc	21	0.01	18	0.02	-4.97
ROOT	21	0.01	21	0.02	-18.55
Temp Certificate!	20	0.01	19	0.02	-14.26
Rutgers University	20	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Stargate.Net, Inc.	19	0.01	17	0.01	-8.97
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	19	0.01	19	0.02	-18.55
media3	18	0.01	25	0.02	-41.35
NIH	18	0.01	15	0.01	-2.26
KMD	18	0.01	11	0.01	33.28
DeZines Web Hosting	18	0.01	19	0.02	-22.84
cv. Candi Internet	17	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Helsinki	17	0.01	15	0.01	-7.69
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	17	0.01	13	0.01	6.51
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	17	0.01	17	0.01	-18.55
BSG	17	0.01	17	0.01	-18.55
Web Hosting	16	0.01	16	0.01	-18.55
ICS_TREE	16	0.01	12	0.01	8.60
ICP-Brasil	16	0.01	11	0.01	18.48
Aaex Corp.	16	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
UUNET UK	15	0.01	15	0.01	-18.55
UNESP	15	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Register4less	15	0.01	13	0.01	-6.02
Carnegie Mellon University	15	0.01	14	0.01	-12.73
Sun Cobalt	14	0.01	13	0.01	-12.28
PVT a.s.	14	0.01	9	0.01	26.70
OCC	14	0.01	17	0.01	-32.92
MULTICERT-CA	14	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Logacont AG	14	0.01	14	0.01	-18.55
Linux Test Server	14	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
INFN	14	0.01	10	0.01	14.03
HDE	14	0.01	14	0.01	-18.55
FNMT	14	0.01	13	0.01	-12.28
Apache HTTP Server	14	0.01	16	0.01	-28.73
UniCERT Brasil	13	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
ServeLinux Networks, Inc.	13	0.01	10	0.01	5.89
CNRS	13	0.01	17	0.01	-37.71
zNET Internet Services	12	0.01	11	0.01	-11.14
XX	12	0.01	9	0.01	8.60
University of Bristol	12	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Radio Data Group Inc	12	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Postecom s.p.a.	12	0.01	12	0.01	-18.55
My Company Ltd	12	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Etisalat	12	0.01	11	0.01	-11.14
kundenserver.de	11	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.