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	December 2002 Count	December 2002 %	November 2002 Count	November 2002 %	Growth %
Verisign	40,153	38.71	39,596	38.91	-0.53
Thawte	30,565	29.46	30,104	29.58	-0.41
Equifax (Geotrust)	8,748	8.43	8,209	8.07	4.53
Equifax Secure Inc	4,931	4.75	5,206	5.12	-7.09
Unknown	2,281	2.20	2,188	2.15	2.26
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,830	1.76	1,811	1.78	-0.88
SomeOrganization	1,130	1.09	1,131	1.11	-2.00
Entrust.net	1,033	1.00	1,018	1.00	-0.46
U.S. Government	774	0.75	740	0.73	2.60
Comodo Limited	734	0.71	600	0.59	20.00
Plesk Inc.	624	0.60	623	0.61	-1.75
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	205	0.20	196	0.19	2.59
The USERTRUST Network	188	0.18	167	0.16	10.43
GlobalSign nv-sa	135	0.13	126	0.12	5.10
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	121	0.12	124	0.12	-4.28
GTE Corporation	110	0.11	113	0.11	-4.51
Thawte Certification	109	0.11	103	0.10	3.80
Ipswitch,Inc.	100	0.10	87	0.09	12.75
Deutsche Telekom AG	92	0.09	92	0.09	-1.91
Kubota Systems Inc.	88	0.08	84	0.08	2.76
Advanced Extranet Server	80	0.08	80	0.08	-1.91
Plesk, Inc.	68	0.07	66	0.06	1.06
ispgateway	65	0.06	62	0.06	2.84
*.ceti.pl	59	0.06	59	0.06	-1.91
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.	51	0.05	48	0.05	4.22
Esat Net	50	0.05	49	0.05	0.09
Ensim Corporation	48	0.05	46	0.05	2.36
zNET Internet Services	38	0.04	38	0.04	-1.91
PKI Partner AB	36	0.03	34	0.03	3.86
Ring d.o.o.	35	0.03	34	0.03	0.98
NeoNova B.V.	35	0.03	34	0.03	0.98
University of Florida	33	0.03	34	0.03	-4.79
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	33	0.03	34	0.03	-4.79
SCNC	33	0.03	32	0.03	1.16
Webmin Software	29	0.03	28	0.03	1.59
Franke & Partner	29	0.03	29	0.03	-1.91
Beocity	29	0.03	25	0.02	13.78
media3	27	0.03	32	0.03	-17.24
Onyx Internet	27	0.03	26	0.03	1.86
BSG	25	0.02	27	0.03	-9.18
HJ.NET	24	0.02	28	0.03	-15.92
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.	22	0.02	23	0.02	-6.17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	21	0.02	22	0.02	-6.37
Indra's Net, Inc.	21	0.02	21	0.02	-1.91
FreeSSL	21	0.02	13	0.01	58.45
Tele Danmark	20	0.02	20	0.02	-1.91
Stargate.Net, Inc.	20	0.02	20	0.02	-1.91
Stalker Software, Inc.	20	0.02	19	0.02	3.25
DeZines Web Hosting	20	0.02	20	0.02	-1.91
Web Hosting	19	0.02	19	0.02	-1.91
University of Maryland	19	0.02	18	0.02	3.54
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	19	0.02	18	0.02	3.54
Idonex AB	19	0.02	20	0.02	-6.81
Your Organization	18	0.02	22	0.02	-19.74
WebMoney Transfer	18	0.02	23	0.02	-23.23
Logacont AG	18	0.02	19	0.02	-7.07
IceWarp Software	18	0.02	15	0.01	17.71
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	18	0.02	18	0.02	-1.91
XAO Inc.	17	0.02	16	0.02	4.22
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	17	0.02	20	0.02	-16.62
NIH	17	0.02	17	0.02	-1.91
KICA	17	0.02	15	0.01	11.17
UUNET UK	16	0.02	21	0.02	-25.26
Linux Test Server	16	0.02	16	0.02	-1.91
Carnegie Mellon University	16	0.02	12	0.01	30.79
University of Helsinki	15	0.01	15	0.01	-1.91
Sun Microsystems Inc	15	0.01	14	0.01	5.10
IPS Seguridad CA	15	0.01	15	0.01	-1.91
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	14	0.01	14	0.01	-1.91
SOGO KEIBI HOSHO CO.LTD	14	0.01	13	0.01	5.64
PVT a.s.	14	0.01	14	0.01	-1.91
Radio Data Group Inc	13	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
USMC	12	0.01	12	0.01	-1.91
Superb Internet Corp.	12	0.01	12	0.01	-1.91
International Business Machines Corporation	12	0.01	11	0.01	7.01
INFN	12	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	12	0.01	12	0.01	-1.91
XYZ Corporation	11	0.01	10	0.01	7.90
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	11	0.01	11	0.01	-1.91
Kasetsart University	11	0.01	11	0.01	-1.91
KMD	11	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
IPrimus USA	11	0.01	11	0.01	-1.91
Estore Corp	11	0.01	11	0.01	-1.91
comDesign	10	0.01	9	0.01	8.99
University of Waterloo	10	0.01	10	0.01	-1.91
Logical Net Corp	10	0.01	9	0.01	8.99
Inter Clear Service Ltd	10	0.01	10	0.01	-1.91
CNRS	10	0.01	11	0.01	-10.83
Uppsala universitet	9	0.01	9	0.01	-1.91
Tampere University of Technology	9	0.01	9	0.01	-1.91
Swiss-Web GmbH	9	0.01	9	0.01	-1.91
ServeLinux Networks, Inc.	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Nebraska On-Ramp	9	0.01	11	0.01	-19.74
Internet Gold	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Frank's Radio	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Etisalat	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Associazione Investici	9	0.01	9	0.01	-1.91
Apache HTTP Server	9	0.01	9	0.01	-1.91
A&S Systemtechnik	9	0.01	9	0.01	-1.91
ViaPVT a.s.	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.91

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.