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.
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.
Der Fachbereich Informatik der Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg veranstaltet mit Hilfe der Fachschaft Informatik, der LUUSA und des FrOSCon e.V. 2006 erstmals eine Konferenz rund um Themen der freien Software.
CAcert wird dort einen Stand haben an dem man sich assuren lassen kann und vorraussichtlich auch einen Vortrag am Sonntag über die praktische Verwendung von CAcert Zertifikaten.
Achtung: Es werden noch Assurer für den Stand gesucht. Interressierte bitte unter http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FrosCon eintragen.
The Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg organised the Froscon 2006, a conference about free Software.
CAcert has its own booth there and also on sunday a lecture about using CAcert Certificates.
more Infos (in german): http://www.froscon.de/wiki/FrOSCon
Duane postet at 2005-05-06:
It’s taken 2 years, 2 months, and 6 days but finally we have reached 2000 assurers.
Today, another year later we have reached over 6000 Assurers, over 53,000 valid Certificates and so it goes on.
Or why we start demanding the 26 eyes principle …
The assumed quality of human manual identity verification is 99%, giving an error rate of 1%. That was the main reason behind the 4 eyes principle rule at CAcert, trying to have at least 2 assurers verify the identity of a person. Statistically, this should reduce the error rate to 1:10,000 . In practice, we had a lot of cases already, where the second assurer noticed small problems, that the first assurer oversaw, which resulted in correcting the error. (Most errors are numerical errors with the birthday, or smaller mistakes in the name). So the system seemed to work fine that way. Until an assurer noticed a couple of days ago, that there are 2 small errors in the name in an account, and that there were already 12 other assurers that assured the person, without noticing it.
Statistically, the possibility for 12 assurers not noticing it should be 1:1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (according to the statistical model) 😉
Thanks to the 13th Assurer for noticing it!
Your CAcert Quality Assurance Department
The issue of statistics came up again today (as it does from time to time), currently CAcert is experiencing linear growth rates both in the number of certificates issued each month and the numbers of new signups. Assurances tend to be a bit spikey depending how many conferences attended.
In any case, the number of certificates issued has more then doubled in the past 10 months (about May last year is the half way point) so one must wonder where things are headed if the same trend continues.
Some quick stats for people, about the begining of this month we issued our 100,000th certificate, and about the same time we had our 50,000th signup, and by this time next year we could easily have more then double both those numbers.
I’m very proud to announce the upcoming Unix / Linux Day 2006, organised by the UnixAG Zweibrücken. This year’s event is focused on security related topics and is held under the motto: Linux Security Day. Talks include interesting topics such as virtualisation, auditing with Knoppix based live CDs, Solaris dtrace and ofcourse: CAcert!
We will be organising an OpenPGP keysigning party and ofcourse there will be plenty CAcert assurers available for assuring. Right now we have about six assurers. More assurers are always welcome!
Please take a look at http://lsd.unixag.net for mor information.
There is an Online shop at http://cacert.spreadshirt.de/ where Shirts, Mugs and Badges can be ordered. For any questions or requests please mail to cacert@gmx.net .
The 4th Annual Southern California Linux Expo is being held this weekend (11th and 12th of Feburary) near LAX airport, and there will be assurers in attendance manning a booth for both days.
For more information please visit their website or contact Russ
For the Ohio Linuxfest we had a number of portable verification devices (aka coffee mugs), made up as donationware items. We over estimated the demand and we have a quantity of these left over and are offering them primarily for those in the US (due to postage costs).
We’re offering these mugs for a minimum donation of $10 (unless you want to pick up in the Columbus area or donate more money), the cost break down is $5 for the mug, and $5 is to cover banking fees and postage.
