Many people associate GeoCerts very strongly with GeoTrust SSL certificates. That is not simply because of the similarity of the two names. In this post we'll briefly overview the relationship between GeoCerts and GeoTrust and clarify how the two entities fit together. GeoTrust was founded as an independent Certification Authority ...

After we started thinking about terms that were used in multiple forms in the TLS/SSL business, in occurred to us that the names themselves could be very confusing. So here we are with the Brand Name Edition of our synonyms and misnomers discussion. GeoCerts vs. GeoTrust We frequently encounter people ...

Internet pioneer VeriSign was the first company ever to issue SSL certificates back in the mid-1990s, and it continued to be the brand and market leader in the SSL space until the acquisition of the Verisign digital certificates business by Symantec in 2010. During that time Verisign played a critical ...