Since Chrome announced in 2017 that is was deprecating trust for Symantec's certificate brands, including GeoTrust , Thawte , and RapidSSL , we have continued to receive inquiries about whether or not GeoTrust is a trusted, credible certificate for use on production websites. Fortunately, these brands' new parent company DigiCert ...

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 ...

Firefox is set to follow a similar deprecation schedule for GeoTrust and other Symantec certificates. Read on to learn more.