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RootKey ceremony

Today, Friday 28th of november, CAcert is creating new RootKeys for signing the certificates. This is done to comply to the audit requirements of having everything documented. Our current RootKeys are audit fail because it lacks documentation about the procedure.The current RootKeys will NOT be revoked yet because there are ...

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invited talk at LISA2008

As mentioned by Maurice, I presented this at LISA2008:An Open Audit of an Open Certification AuthorityHow does a lightweight community Certification Authority ("CA") engage in the heavyweight world of PKI and secure browsing? This talk tracks the systems audit of CAcert, ...

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CAcert-Parties in Düsseldorf

Gleich zwei CAcert-Parties gibt es diese Woche in Düsseldorf/NRW:Der Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf (www.chaosdorf.de) bietet am 28.11. ab ca. 20:00 eine Zertifizierungsmöglichkeit an. Hier können sich Interessenten auch über die Hintergründe zum Thema CAcert und PGP-Verschlüsselung informieren. Einlass ist ab ca. 19:00.> Chaos Computer Club Duesseldorf> ...

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