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	November 2002 Count	November 2002 %	October 2002 Count	October 2002 %	Growth %
Verisign	39,596	38.91	38,831	39.28	-0.94
Thawte	30,104	29.58	29,687	30.03	-1.49
Equifax (Geotrust)	8,209	8.07	6,051	6.12	31.79
Equifax Secure Inc	5,206	5.12	6,602	6.68	-23.40
Unknown	2,188	2.15	2,073	2.10	2.53
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,811	1.78	1,812	1.83	-2.91
SomeOrganization	1,131	1.11	1,085	1.10	1.26
Entrust.net	1,018	1.00	977	0.99	1.22
U.S. Government	740	0.73	770	0.78	-6.64
Plesk Inc.	623	0.61	552	0.56	9.64
Comodo Limited	600	0.59	358	0.36	62.81
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	196	0.19	179	0.18	6.37
The USERTRUST Network	167	0.16	152	0.15	6.73
GlobalSign nv-sa	126	0.12	125	0.13	-2.08
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	124	0.12	121	0.12	-0.45
GTE Corporation	113	0.11	116	0.12	-5.37
Thawte Certification	103	0.10	105	0.11	-4.71
Deutsche Telekom AG	92	0.09	90	0.09	-0.70
Ipswitch,Inc.	87	0.09	85	0.09	-0.57
Kubota Systems Inc.	84	0.08	81	0.08	0.74
Advanced Extranet Server	80	0.08	76	0.08	2.26
Plesk, Inc.	66	0.06	12	0.01	434.29
ispgateway	62	0.06	52	0.05	15.82
*.ceti.pl	59	0.06	59	0.06	-2.86
Esat Net	49	0.05	51	0.05	-6.67
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.	48	0.05	42	0.04	11.02
Ensim Corporation	46	0.05	38	0.04	17.59
zNET Internet Services	38	0.04	38	0.04	-2.86
University of Florida	34	0.03	32	0.03	3.21
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	34	0.03	32	0.03	3.21
Ring d.o.o.	34	0.03	34	0.03	-2.86
PKI Partner AB	34	0.03	28	0.03	17.96
NeoNova B.V.	34	0.03	35	0.04	-5.63
media3	32	0.03	32	0.03	-2.86
SCNC	32	0.03	31	0.03	0.28
Franke & Partner	29	0.03	30	0.03	-6.09
Webmin Software	28	0.03	24	0.02	13.33
HJ.NET	28	0.03	15	0.02	81.33
BSG	27	0.03	27	0.03	-2.86
Onyx Internet	26	0.03	27	0.03	-6.45
Beocity	25	0.02	20	0.02	21.43
WebMoney Transfer	23	0.02	21	0.02	6.39
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.	23	0.02	27	0.03	-17.25
Your Organization	22	0.02	20	0.02	6.86
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	22	0.02	21	0.02	1.77
UUNET UK	21	0.02	21	0.02	-2.86
Indra's Net, Inc.	21	0.02	21	0.02	-2.86
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	20	0.02	17	0.02	14.29
Tele Danmark	20	0.02	18	0.02	7.94
Stargate.Net, Inc.	20	0.02	20	0.02	-2.86
Idonex AB	20	0.02	21	0.02	-7.48
DeZines Web Hosting	20	0.02	21	0.02	-7.48
Web Hosting	19	0.02	20	0.02	-7.71
Stalker Software, Inc.	19	0.02	20	0.02	-7.71
Logacont AG	19	0.02	18	0.02	2.54
University of Maryland	18	0.02	17	0.02	2.86
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	18	0.02	17	0.02	2.86
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	18	0.02	17	0.02	2.86
Sofia Kallin	17	0.02	16	0.02	3.21
NIH	17	0.02	14	0.01	17.96
XAO Inc.	16	0.02	14	0.01	11.02
Linux Test Server	16	0.02	15	0.02	3.62
University of Helsinki	15	0.01	16	0.02	-8.93
KICA	15	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
IceWarp Software	15	0.01	12	0.01	21.43
IPS Seguridad CA	15	0.01	15	0.02	-2.86
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	14	0.01	14	0.01	-2.86
Sun Microsystems Inc	14	0.01	13	0.01	4.62
PVT a.s.	14	0.01	14	0.01	-2.86
SOGO KEIBI HOSHO CO.LTD	13	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
FreeSSL	13	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
USMC	12	0.01	12	0.01	-2.86
Superb Internet Corp.	12	0.01	13	0.01	-10.33
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	12	0.01	12	0.01	-2.86
Carnegie Mellon University	12	0.01	11	0.01	5.97
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	11	0.01	11	0.01	-2.86
Nebraska On-Ramp	11	0.01	11	0.01	-2.86
Kasetsart University	11	0.01	11	0.01	-2.86
International Business Machines Corporation	11	0.01	12	0.01	-10.95
IPrimus USA	11	0.01	13	0.01	-17.80
Estore Corp	11	0.01	12	0.01	-10.95
CNRS	11	0.01	11	0.01	-2.86
XYZ Corporation	10	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Waterloo	10	0.01	9	0.01	7.94
Inter Clear Service Ltd	10	0.01	9	0.01	7.94
comDesign	9	0.01	8	0.01	9.29
Uppsala universitet	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.86
Tampere University of Technology	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.86
Swiss-Web GmbH	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
NASA	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.86
Logical Net Corp	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
KPNQwest International	9	0.01	11	0.01	-20.52
Digicert Sdn Bhd	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.86
Associazione Investici	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.86
Apache HTTP Server	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
A&S Systemtechnik	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.86
ViaPVT a.s.	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Oulu	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Universitaet Heidelberg	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.86
TU Dresden	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.86

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.