The LISA, Large Installation System Administrators conference, will be interesting in particular on thursday between 11:00AM and 12:30PM as the CAcert auditor, Ian Grigg, will do his ´Invited talk´ about auditing a community driven Certificate Authority on this conference.

Ian will talk about how CAcert as a lightweight community Certificate Authority (“CA”) engage in the heavyweight world of PKI and secure browsing. With the introduction of Public Key Infrastructure, the Internet security framework rapidly became too complex for individuals and small groups to deal with, and the audit stepped into the gulf to provide a kinder face, in the form of a simple opinion or judgment call.

He will speak in detail about the systems audit of CAcert, as a case study in auditing versus the open Internet, community versus professionalism, quality versus enthusiasm and will look at how CAcert found itself at this point. Also he addresses some big-ticket items, such as risks, assurance, disputes, privacy, and security.

The CAcert Assurer Rudi van Drunen, and many others will organize a Birds of Feather assurance party for doing assurances and pgp signing. As such increasing the Web of Trust.

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At Drupalcon we’ll have a CAcert event organized by the people from erdfisch. If you need some assuring you’ll find them every day of the conference from 12:45 to 13:15 on the ground floor in the sitting corner near the registration desk.

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A new CAcert Assuring Party will take place at DebConf8 in Mar del Plata,  Argentina, right next to the Keysigning Party[1], during this Thursday.
To obtain assurance at the event:

1. Login to the CAcert site and click the "CAcert Web of Trust" menu and then click on one of the WoT forms.

2. Print that form out, verify that it has complete and accurate information

3. Bring it and 2 forms of government issued photo identification (one will be accepted, but two are preferred in case of document validity doubts).

Please also read over the following pages:http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceIntroduction and http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP.

There are some printers you can use to print forms at DebConf FrontDesk on the ground floor of the "Hotel Dora".

See you in there!