At its annual meeting, the members of CAcert Inc, the association that supports the CAcert community, decided to adapt its structures to current circumstances. Since CAcert moved its base to Europe, there is no longer an Australian government reqirement for a certain number of Australian Committee Members, and so the number of Committee Members has been returned to our original number, five. The members are convinced that these leaner structures will better meet the demands of the future.

CAcert can generally look back on a very successful year. President Brian McCullough emphasised three points in particular at the beginning of the meeting:
– Modernisation of machinery in the data centre with an impressive reduction in power consumption.
– CAcert Community Centre as a simple self-service portal, including for creating certificates.
– An exciting development was the completion of a first version of the CAcert OpenID Connect tool, allowing the CAcert members to use their Client Certificates to log in to various other services without using passwords.

Two long-standing members have left the committee of the association: Frédéric Grither was Treasurer for two and a half years and, after an interruption, continued in this role for another year. Frédéric Dumas was on the committee for six years and is also active as a volunteer. Among other things, he initiated the promising OpenID Connect project.

CAcert has been operating the free certificate authority cacert.org, which issues free X.509 client certificates that are secured via the Web of Trust, exclusively with volunteers for over 20 years.
CAcert Certificate Authority: https://www.cacert.org
CAcert Community Centre: https://community.cacert.org