The global certificate authority that provides digital certificate products and 128- bit encryption SSL for servers.

Thawte is a South African company which acts as a certificate authority. On December 20, 1999, it was acquired by Verisign.

Thawte Consulting is a certificate authority (CA) for X.509 certificates. Thawte was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa and is the second largest public CA on the Internet.