Personal Certificates for Web and Mail

A personal certificate is a digital identity document that can be used to sign digital messages like email and news. It can also be used by other people to encrypt information that is for your eyes only. Once you exchange certificates with your friends or business partners you can correspond over the Internet in complete privacy.

Thawte's Web of Trust (WOT) is a unique, community-driven certification system based on face-to-face ID validation on a peer-to-peer basis. It's a "bottom-up" CA, compared to traditional "top-down" CA systems. You can be notarized, and then you in turn can act as a notary and certify the identity of your friends! [more...]

Get a Personal Certificate

Once you have enrolled to the Thawte Personal Certification System, you can have your identity certified by a WOT Notary in your area.

Each notary you visit will give you between 5 and 35 trust points, depending on his experience level. You will need 50 trust points to have your name on your digital certificate, and 100 points to become a notary yourself.

I am a WOT Notary based at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, WA, USA. My name is Jean-Claude Manoli, and you can contact me by email to request an ID assertion and gain 35 trust points. I will do it free of charge if we meet at my office during business hours

Notarization Requirements

In order to have your identity assured by me, you will need to meet me with the following:

A government-issued form of identification bearing the number you used when you registered with the Thawte Personal Certification system — the 'National Identification Code' (NIC). This could be your passport number, your driving license number, your social security number, etc.
At least one other government-issued form of identification bearing your photograph (e.g. a driver's license or a passport).
Photocopies of all identity documents shown. Note that I am required by Thawte to keep the photocopies.

Make sure you have read and understand the Web of Trust Rules.

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