Category Archives: Information

General news/information to the CAcert community or about security in general

CAcert Assurer-fest in Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Next Tuesday, September 12, 2006, the Northern Colorado Linux Users Group (nclug.org) meeting will be spreading the CAcert word.  We have a Super Assurer as well as another regular assurer and will be able to get people up to 150 points during that meeting.  We will start slightly before at 6pm meeting, at 5:30, and will assure people up to 120 points, and then we will help you cross-assure a few other people to get up to the full 150 points.  For more information, contact jafo@tummy.com.

Looking for an event co-ordinator

We are currently looking for someone to volunteer as an events co-ordinator. This role will entail at least the following responsibilities:

  • Take upcoming event noticies and publish to this blog
  • Co-ordinate with high visibility events to get table space + volunteers to attend
  • If funding is needed for travel/materials you will need to put a justification to the board to approve funding

I’m sure there is more skills needed, and we’re not sure how much time is needed to deal with all this.

CACert auf den mrmcd101b in Darmstadt

Die metarheinmain chaosdays sind ein mehr oder weniger regelmäßiges Treffen einiger Chaostreffs des Rhein-Main Gebietes. Sie stehen natürlich auch anderen Chaoten und Interessierten offen.

Die metarheinmain chaosdays sind eine Veranstaltung für Interessierte im Bereich IT und inbesondere im Bereich IT-Sicherheit, die Wissenstransfer und interessante Bekanntschaften ermöglichen sollen. Die mrmcd101b – die fünften metarheinmain chaosdays (in binärer Schreibweise 101b) – sind eine Veranstaltung der Hochschulgruppe Chaos Darmstadt.

Wann?

Das erste Wochenende im September: 1.-3. September 2006 Beginn: Freitag 16 Uhr bis Sonntag 16 Uhr

Wo?

TU Darmstadt – Piloty Gebäude S2|02 Hochschulstrasse 10, in der Nähe des Alten Hauptgebäudes an der Alexanderstrasse D-64283 Darmstadt GPS: 49.879454 8.65551

Nähere Informationen sowie Anmeldung zum Event unter http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de

CACert Assurances werden auf der Keysigningparty stattfinden und ein Vortrag zum Thema CAcert wird es auch geben. Siehe hierzu im Fahrplan zum Event.

SHA1 getting insecure : WinXP-SP2, Debian Stable, FreeBSD 6.1, OSX 10.4 affected!

SHA-1 has just been broken a bit more: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/77244
CAcert is aggressively moving to SHA-2 as we speak.

Microsoft will support SHA-2 only in Windows Vista according to our sources.
Debian Stable, FreeBSD and OSX don´t provide SHA-2 in their current versions.
SuSE, Knoppix, FC5, Ubuntu, Mandriva, … all support SHA-2 already.
Read more details about SHA-2 support of various applications and distributions on http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/HashInterop

Please contact your vendor to tell them that you need SHA-2 support!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA

CAcert on come2Linux, Essen (Germany)

The Linuxtage in Essen take place in the glass pavilion of the university of Duisburg-Essen on September 9th and 10th, 2006.
Saturday 10:00 — 18:00 clock and Sunday 10:00 — 4:00 p.m..
The glass pavilion (the red building) is between the building entrances R11 and R12 (on the site plan of the main campus Essen on the right edge). At the event there will be several Community stands, a topic park and papers as well as workshops.

CAcert also wants to take Place at this event and need help from Assurers and Users around Essen. Please see http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/come2linux for more information!

CAcert Brunch Berlin 2006-08-13

On Sunday August 13th there will be a CAcert certification event
in Berlin, Germany.  It will take place at the cafe/restaurant
“Yildiz” next to the subway station “Hallesches Tor”
from 11am to (at least) 2pm.  Certifications are free of cost
(as usual :-), and the brunch costs 6euros – flat rate.

Please do not forget to bring two items of identification
(eg an id-card, a driver’s license, or a passport).
if you intend to come then please “register” yourself on
the wiki page http://wiki.freitagsrunde.org/CAcert/Brunch
or simply send a mail to cacert@freitagsrunde.org – thanks!

Assurers in Coventry(UK) needed

The Coventry Linux User Group is searching for Assurers to help them grow CAcert in the UK. If you ever wanted to visit Coventry, or try to spread CAcert in a new area, here is your chance to do both at once! If you are interested, please contact support at CAcert dot org, we will get you in touch

TTP in Germany no longer available

The CAcert Trusted Third Party (TTP) Programme is no longer available in Germany. Because of so many Assurers here there is no need for this programme anymore. Because of this also the Superassurer (SA) is no longer available in Germany. Other countries take no effect of this.

Linuxinfotag Pforzheim – 15.Juli 2006

Seit 2004 veranstaltet die Pforzheimer Linux User Group jedes Jahr den Linux-Info-Tag. Dieser findet auch am 15. Juli 2006 wieder an der Hochschule Pforzheim statt.

Das Konzept der Veranstaltung vereint sowohl ein Vortragsprogramm als auch eine Linux Installationsparty, Workshops und eine Ausstellung von Freien Software-Projekten.

CAcert  wird auch wie im Vergangenen jahr mit einem Stand und einem Vortrag zum Thema E-mail Zertifikate und deren praktische Anwendung vertreten sein.

Erwartet werden in diesem Jahr ca. 1000 Besucher. Termin: Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 10 – 20 Uhr Ort: T1 – Technikgebäude der HS Pforzheim Tiefenbronner Strasse 66, Pforzheim

Link: http://infotage.pf-lug.de/2006/

Wer Assurer ist (oder werden möchte) und gerne helfen möchte kann auch im CAcert-Wiki unter http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/LinuxInfotag-Pforzheim vorbeischauen und sich eintragen.