Bermuda-based technology security company QuoVadis says its root certificates are now enabled across the Internet.

This as the company announced the certificates are now to be globally distributed in FireFox and Thunderbird, the popular web browser and e-mail software from the Mozilla Foundation.

Mozilla and Firefox have received significant attention in recent months as security authorities ? including from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) of the Department of Homeland Security ? recommended users switch to alternative web browsers. To date, more than 25 million users have downloaded the free FireFox software which is available in more than 35 languages.

The company said last week that the distribution of its root certificates means that Firefox and Thunderbird users can seamlessly take advantage of QuoVadis encryption.

The distribution has additional benefits to QuoVadis as other software projects (including Open Office and Red Hat/Fedora) rely upon security components of the Mozilla software. In recent years, QuoVadis has also been enabled in Microsoft, Apple, and RIM BlackBerry software.

Chief marketing officer Stephen Davidson said: ?We are pleased to be included in Mozilla?s software as our goal is to ensure that our customers around the world can take advantage of QuoVadis security using the platforms and software of their choice,? and he added that being included in the Mozilla software now made the QuoVadis root certificates ?pretty much ubiquitous on the Internet?.