Since the hard disk of the signing server has become unreliable, it has to be changed. With that several other services will not be available too.
Server Downtime 2012-06-26 about 12:00 UTC to 14:00 UTC
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Category Archives: Information
Problems with signing certificates [resolved]
The signer was down from June 21 02:00 UTC to June 22 23:00 UTC.
Our administrators were able to fix the hardware problem so that the signer is up and working again.
We’re sorry for any inconvenience.
ATE Duesseldorf, 2012-07-09
German Version below
There will be an ATE in Duesseldorf on 9th July 2012. More details on the wiki.
There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending:
– Email I will attend ATE-Duesseldorf
– Edit the wiki directly
As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute.”
German Version
Am Montag, 09. Juli 2012, findet in der Heinrich-Heine-Universtiät in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fachschaft Informatik das nächste ATE statt.
• Was hast du auf dem CAP Formular hinzuzufügen, wenn du Minderjährige überprüfst ?
• Warum solltest du dir die 3 Buchstaben: R/L/O einprägen ?
• Wie verhälst du dich, wenn du ein fremdes Ausweisdokument zum erste Mal prüfst ?
Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen erhaltet ihr auf dem Assurer Training Event.
Bringt geeignete Lichtbildausweise für Assurances mit.
Ein zusätzlicher Hinweis für ehemalige Tverify/Thawte Leute:
Das ATE ist auch eine sehr gute Möglichkeit eure Assurance und Experience Punkte in die Reihe zu bekommen, bevor diese gestrichen werden.
ATE-Düsseldorf findet statt:
• Montag, 09. Juli, 2012
• Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Raum: 25.12.02.33
• Universitätsstraße 1
• 40225 Düsseldorf
• 19:00 bis ca. 22:00 Uhr
Registrierung: Ich möchte am ATE-Düsseldorf teilnehmen
Vielleicht treffen wir uns ja da.
Mit bestem Gruß vom Events Team!
World IPv6 Launch at CAcert
On 6 June 2012 World IPv6 Launch will take place. CAcert is joining the show by permanently enabling its main website for use via IPv6. Of course the existing service via IPv4 will be continued.
The CAcert DNS service has been available via IPv6 for quite some time already. Other CAcert infrastructure services will be following to offer IPv6 support in the near future.
Problems with signing certificates (Solved)
The signer was down from May 27, 00:00 UTC to May 28, 20:30 UTC.
Our administrators were able to fix the hardware problem so that the signer is up and working again.
We’re sorry for any inconvenience.
Problems to reach some CAcert services (solved)
We have suffered from a connectivity problem with the CAcert infrastructure services (blog, mail, svn, wiki etc) from about 08:05 – 09:05 UTC this morning (2012-05-23).
Our system administrators were able to fix the firewall problem.
All systems are avialable again.
OpenSSL gap in ASN1 parser
Due to a vulnerability in the OpenSSL ASN1 parser OpenSSL has recently released a new version of their SSL certificate processing programs.
Not affected was the sshd server itself but software which parsed public RSA keys, or the X.509 client certificates, e.g. for logon purposes. The recent OpenSSL versions 1.0.1a, 1.0.0i and 0.9.8v fix this so called “ASN1 BIO” gap.
CAcert has upgraded its installation within 24 hours after the fix was delivered to maintain stability and availability of its public services.
Details: http://h-online.com/-1543932
ATE Karlsruhe, 2012-05-15
German Version below
There will be an ATE in Karlsruhe on 15th May 2012. More details on the wiki.
There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending:
– Email I will attend ATE-Karlsruhe
– Edit the wiki directly
As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all Assurers, and include parts which contribute directly to our audit. Come and find out how you can also contribute.”
German Version
Am Dienstag, 15. mai 2012 findet in FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik das nächste ATE statt.
• Was hast du auf dem CAP Formular hinzuzufügen, wenn du Minderjährige überprüfst ?
• Warum solltest du dir die 3 Buchstaben: R/L/O einprägen ?
• Wie verhälst du dich, wenn du ein fremdes Ausweis Dokument zum erste mal prüfst ?
Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen erhaltet ihr auf dem Assurer Training Event.
Bringt geeignete Lichtbildausweise für Assurances mit.
Ein zusätzlicher Hinweis für ehemalige Tverify/Thawte Leute:
Das ATE ist auch eine sehr gute Möglichkeit eure Assurance und Experience Punkte in die Reihe zu bekommen, bevor diese gestrichen werden.
ATE-Karlsruhe findet statt:
• Dienstag, 15. Mai, 2012
• FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
• Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14
• 76131 Karlsruhe
• 19:00 bis ca. 22:00 Uhr
Registrierung: Ich möchte am ATE-Karlsruhe teilnehmen
Vielleicht treffen wir uns ja da.
Mit bestem Gruß vom Events Team!
CACert in the UK
Following the successful ATE in Crewe at the beginning of the year, I’ve started a mailing list for the UK community – cacert-uk@lists.cacert.org.
You can register for this list at lists.cacert.org – it’s in the “General Lists” section.
CAcert OA for The Document Foundation
At the CeBIT 2012 booth in Hannover CAcert was able to handover the Organisation Account (OA) for “The Document Foundation”. The Document Foundation is dealing with financial and legal cases on behalf of the open source project LibreOffice.
Picture (Martin Gummi): from left. Thorsten Behrens, Deputy Chairman TDF; Marcus Mängel, CAcert Organisation Assurance Officer; Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the board TDF; Dirk Astrath, Executive Board Member CAcert.