…well, not quite, but they have recently announced that they’d be discontinuing the Personal E-mail Certificates and Web of Trust. These were free services and it comes as bit of a blow as I’ve been using them to sign my JARs for WebStart deployment. As Thawte are a root authority, it meant no annoying prompts from WebStart claiming I was a would-be terrorist. Looks like I’m back to hiding in shadows.

A couple of useful links below.

• http://ciardhubh.de/node/4
• http://www.dallaway.com/acad/webstart/