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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
September 1st, 2002

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 only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA August 2002
Count
August 2002
%
July 2002
Count
July 2002
%
Growth
%
Verisign37,81340.0035,08640.45-1.10
Thawte28,85130.5227,09331.23-2.28
Equifax Secure Inc7,5037.946,4227.407.21
Equifax (Geotrust)4,0274.263,1083.5818.90
Unknown1,8631.971,6221.875.40
Snake Oil, Ltd1,7901.891,7512.02-6.19
Entrust.net1,1161.181,1241.30-8.89
SomeOrganization1,0851.159541.104.37
U.S. Government7020.745820.6710.69
Plesk Inc.4650.493950.468.03
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH1550.161420.160.17
The USERTRUST Network1280.141260.15-6.78
Comodo Limited1250.13530.06116.43
GlobalSign nv-sa1110.12950.117.22
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd1080.111260.15-21.34
Thawte Certification1060.11990.11-1.75
GTE Corporation850.09760.092.63
Kubota Systems Inc.790.08790.09-8.23
Deutsche Telekom AG770.08710.08-0.48
Advanced Extranet Server740.08640.076.10
Ipswitch,Inc.680.07650.07-4.00
*.ceti.pl610.06640.07-12.54
Esat Net590.06580.07-6.65
ispgateway460.05420.050.51
Ensim Corporation440.05430.05-6.10
BSG390.04420.05-14.79
media3380.0400.00N/A
zNET Internet Services370.04320.046.10
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.370.04290.0317.08
Ring d.o.o.360.04360.04-8.23
NeoNova B.V.360.04360.04-8.23
University of Florida310.03310.04-8.23
MDM iNet, LLC300.03300.03-8.23
Franke & Partner300.03300.03-8.23
SCNC280.03270.03-4.84
Onyx Internet280.03270.03-4.84
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.270.03270.03-8.23
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.250.03210.029.24
Web Hosting230.02140.0250.76
UUNET UK210.02210.02-8.23
Indra's Net, Inc.210.02210.02-8.23
DeZines Web Hosting210.02130.0148.24
Webmin Software200.02140.0231.09
Stargate.Net, Inc.200.02200.02-8.23
Idonex AB200.02200.02-8.23
University of Maryland190.02200.02-12.82
Stalker Software, Inc.190.02170.022.56
Massachusetts Institute of Technology190.02220.03-20.75
Logacont AG190.02190.02-8.23
Deep Industry190.02240.03-27.35
WebMoney Transfer180.02190.02-13.06
Beocity180.02160.023.24
helpdesk.powercom.net170.0290.0173.33
University of Helsinki170.02160.02-2.50
Linux Test Server170.02150.024.00
HAL interactive, d.o.o.170.02170.02-8.23
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.160.02130.0112.94
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.150.02120.0114.71
HJ.NET150.0200.00N/A
Your Organization140.01110.0116.79
PKI Partner AB140.0100.00N/A
IPS Seguridad CA140.01130.01-1.18
Tele Danmark130.01120.01-0.59
Radio Data Group Inc130.01130.01-8.23
XAO Inc.120.01110.010.11
Superb Internet Corp.120.0100.00N/A
Sun Microsystems Inc120.01140.02-21.34
NIH120.01130.01-15.29
IPrimus USA120.01120.01-8.23
Estore Corp120.01140.02-21.34
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation120.0100.00N/A
USMC110.01130.01-22.35
Telepathy, Inc110.0100.00N/A
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz110.0100.00N/A
International Business Machines Corporation110.01110.01-8.23
CNRS110.01110.01-8.23
comDesign100.0190.011.96
PVT a.s.100.01120.01-23.53
Nebraska On-Ramp100.01100.01-8.23
MadrynCom100.0190.011.96
Inter Clear Service Ltd100.01100.01-8.23
IndyWeb Inc.100.01100.01-8.23
Carnegie Mellon University100.01100.01-8.23
dummy90.01100.01-17.41
Tampere University of Technology90.0190.01-8.23
Schell Computersysteme90.0190.01-8.23
Kasetsart University90.0190.01-8.23
KPNQwest International90.0100.00N/A
IceWarp Software90.0190.01-8.23
IMS90.0190.01-8.23
Associazione Investici90.0190.01-8.23
A&S Systemtechnik90.0190.01-8.23
WebNexus Communications80.0180.01-8.23
Viawest Internet Services80.0180.01-8.23
Uppsala universitet80.0190.01-18.43
University of Waterloo80.0180.01-8.23
Universitaet Heidelberg80.0190.01-18.43
SYLABA Internet80.0180.01-8.23
Rutgers University80.0180.01-8.23
NASA80.0100.00N/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.



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