The software team was able to finish the last fixes so that the Trusted Third Party (TTP) programme is working again. At present there are two restrictions:

• the TTP programme is only rolled out for Australia, Puerto Rico and USA. This means you can only take part if you can visit a TTP in these countries. (All other requests will not be processed)
• the TTP programme is only able to grant up to 70 assurance points. The TTP TOPUP programme that closes the gap between 70 and 100 assurance points is still under development.)

You find more about TTP in on this wiki page at https://wiki.cacert.org/TTP/TTPuser

[Deutsche Version unten]
The software team applied a patch which gives Windows users a chance to install the CAcert root certificates via an installer package. This package is found on the root certificate page http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3. Furthermore the Software team is working on a root installer package for the Mozilla truststore. The Firefox root installer will be available for several operating systems.

[German Version]
Das Software Team hat einen Patch ausgerollt, mit dem Windows Nutzer die CAcert Root Zertifikate über einen Root Installer installieren können. Das Root Installer Paket findet sich auf der Seite http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3. Des Weiteren arbeitet das Software Team an einem Root Installer für den Mozilla Truststore. Dieser wird für diverse Betriebssysteme zur Verfügung stehen.

The CAcert webdb server will be upgraded and migrated to another server with better hardware running Debian Squeeze on Wednesday April 3, 2013. During the migration, the web server (including the signing server) will not be available for users. We expect that the total downtime will be less than two hours. This maintenance work has been scheduled for the period 11:00 - 13:00 CEST (9:00 - 11:00 UTC).

All other CAcert services, like OCSP, DNS, mail etc. will remain available during this time.

Policy Group now moved PoJAM to status POLICY p20130322. The Policy On Junior Assurers/Members is binding to the Assurers assuring other members or are by themselves under the age of 18 years.

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German version below

On the world’s largest computer fair, the CeBIT in Hannover, DE, CAcert should not miss out. From march 5th till 9th Assurer and Assurees are meeting each other from 12 o’clock noon outside of hall 2 in direction of the green. In case of bad weather the assurances take place directly at the glass front of Hall 2 outside under the roofing.

More events with attendance of CAcert — at OpenSource-Events with booth — can be reviewed in CAcert wiki under http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/UpcomingEvents.

[German]
Auf der weltgrößten Computermesse, der CeBIT in Hannover, darf auch CAcert nicht fehlen. Vom 5. bis 9. März treffen sich Assurer und Assurees täglich ab 12 Uhr vor Halle 2 in Richtung der Grünfläche. Bei schlechtem Wetter finden die Assurances direkt an der Glasfront von Halle 2 außen unter der Überdachung statt.

Weitere Veranstaltungen mit CAcert-Beteiligung — bei OpenSource-Veranstaltungen auch mit eigenem Stand — sind im CAcert-Wiki unter dem Link http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/UpcomingEvents
einsehbar.

In Policy Group 2 call for votes have started:

• p20130222 PoJAM to POLICY
• p20130223 Several minor changes to PoP to DRAFT

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We can proudly announce that the Section Bundesrepublik Deutschland amnesty international has successfully passed the Organisation Assurance and is using the CAcert certificates for sending encrypted mails between their members.
If you want to see which other organisations use CAcert are using CAcert certificate look here:
https://wiki.cacert.org/OrganisationAssurance/OrganisationList

Wir freuen uns für die Sektion Bundesrepublik Deutschland von amnesty international, dass sie die Organisation Assurance bestanden haben. ai nutzt nun die CAcert-Zertifikate zur Verschlüsselung des internen E-Mailverkehrs.
Wenn Sie sehen wollen welche Organsiationen noch CAcert-Zertifikate verwenden schauen Sie doch hier nach:
https://wiki.cacert.org/OrganisationAssurance/OrganisationList

Yesterday a security incident has been discovered which could potentially have affected the security of the CAcert servers. As far as we can tell now, there has not been any unauthorized access due to this, but further investigations will be done to confirm that. For the technical details please check the message posted to the cacert-systemlog mailinglist here.

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.

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!