- (Non-Critical) Infrastructure Projects are advancing, Board has accepted to go for Vienna (Sonance) and Berne one is in preparation (contract needs to be made), the hardware in Berne is ready. (see Audit Next Steps (Systems), Infrastructure Host)
- New Arbitrators makes their first steps in the Arbitration Team. The backlog of Arbitration cases increases rapidly, after the support blockage seems to be fixed.
- The first new Support Engineer starts working in the Support Team, also new people on the Triage team. As working on the backlog of the support mailbox, about 15 new disputes upto now forwarded to the Arbitrations Team to a total of 53 init (23)/running (30) cases. Some diputes filed originaly Jun 2009, Sep 2009
- The Draft CPS is now on the main site see on the Blog and the CPS on main Site.
- Assurances Program: As of Board motion m20090912.1 and finaly m20090914.2 also the assurances of underaged people (u18) were ceased. A workaround is to follow the PoJAM (WIP) procedure, but a dispute filing is allways possible.
- Policy group decide p20091108 to make IDNs available everyone with some restrictions to minimize homograph risks.
- recruitment of Support Engineers
. relates to the Arbitration – Case Managers – Support discussion
. Support was identified as a bottleneck, now starting try #3 to get people in
. see also Board Meeting Agenda 2009-11-15
. and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 – 21:00 UTC – Input
. and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 – 21:00 UTC – Input – Reply
. and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 – 21:00 UTC – Input – another Reply
. IanG appointed as temporary Support Officer assisted by u60 see e.g. Support Team
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CAcert auf dem Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2009 – 21. November
CAcert ist auf dem diesjährigen Brandenburger Linux-Infotag (BLIT) am 21. November 2009 vertreten.
Dr. Thomas Bremer wird einen Vortrag zum Thema “Freie Zertifikate für Schulen und Hochschulen” halten und ebenfalls Informationen zur Verwendung von Zertifikaten geben. Dem Vortrag könnt ihr im Hörsaal 3 von ca 14:00 – 15:00 Uhr beiwohnen.
Der BLIT findet in Potsdam (Griebnitzsee) im Haus 6 des Instituts für Informatik der Universität Potsdam statt.
Für die Anfahrt mit dem öffentlichen Nahverkehr bietet sich die S-Bahn Linie 7 an, alternativ verkehrt die Regionalbahn mit der Linie RB 21.
Solltet ihr mit dem Auto anreisen, so sucht in eurem Navi – sofern vorhanden, die “Prof. Dr. Helmert Straße” in 14482 Potsdam. Eine Wegbeschreibung sowie weitere Informationen zur Anfahrt findet ihr auf der Seite des Brandenburger Linux-Infotages unter BLIT – Anfahrt.
Weitere Informationen zum BLIT findet ihr unter:
http://www.blit.org/2009/
Last chance: End of thawte points transfer on 16th november 2009
(EN)
Please note, that all thawte points tansfers must be started before 16th november 2009. After this date we can´t check your status at thawte.
If you have 0 points at CAcert, you get can up to 150 pts.
Please click here for details: http://wiki.cacert.org/ThawteNotary
Interface for thawte transfer:
https://tverify.cacert.org
If you need help, you can also write to our mailinglists – details:
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-support (EN)
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-support (DE)
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-es (ES)
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-br (BR)
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(DE)
Bitte beachtet, dass ein Transfer der Punkte aus dem Thawte WoT nur noch bis zum 16. November 2009 möglich ist. Wir haben danach keine Möglichkeit mehr, eure Daten zu verifizieren und können daher keine Punkte mehr transferieren.
Wenn ihr aktuell 0 Punkte bei CAcert auf dem Konto habt, so könnt ihr dies über den Transfer auf bis zu 150 Punkte aufstocken.
Für Details einfach hier klicken: http://wiki.cacert.org/ThawteNotary
Das Interface für den Transfer findet ihr unter:
https://tverify.cacert.org
Wenn ihr Hilfe benötigt, so könnt ihr uns auch über die Mailinglisten kontaktieren:
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-support (Englisch)
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-de (Deutsch)
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-es (Spanisch)
https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-br ((brasilianisches) Portugiesisch)
Thawte Web of Trust Shutting Down
Thawte’s Web Of Trust is to be Terminated by 16th November
Therefore the board is planning to run the Tverify program until that time, then terminate it completely (as the information will no longer be available).
Then, members who have come in via Tverify will have a year to get assured by other means. This includes members who have obtained points from Tverify in the past.
Tverify is now operating under the authority of board motion m20090928.1 and under the Assurance Policy. This latter means no issues of points over 50, and the earlier includes some restrictions.
However, note that all Tverify points (including ones previously obtained), will be deleted late 2010, so it is best to get assured by CAcert assurers anyway. If you can reach a few of them it may be easier all round if you do that instead of using the Tverify process.
See http://wiki.cacert.org/ThawteNotary for more details. (Disclaimer: that wiki page is not an official statement of the committee)
For the committee of management (board) of CAcert Incorporated,
Nicholas E. Bebout
President
CAcert Incorporated
CAcert Blog is fully X.509 enabled
The CAcert-Blog is now fully X509 enabled.
From never visited the site before and using a named certificate you can, with one click (log in), register for the site and have author status ready to write your own contribution.
If you only have a WoT unnamed certificate you can write your article and it will be spam controlled by the PR people (aka editors).
If you had a contributor account and haven’t posted anything yet you have been downgraded to a subscriber (no comment or write a post access) with all the other spammers. The good news is once you log in with a certificate you get upgraded to the correct status just as if you’d registered.
There is no password authentication any more. The time taken to make sure both behaved reliably was not possible in the time the admins had available.
Please ignore the big blog upgrade notice – we are using Debian security maintained packages and don’t need a WordPress upgrade.
So get to it – write something interesting.
[Edits thanks to Henrik Heigl]
CAcert auf der 1. IT & Business Messe Stuttgart 6.-8.10.2009
CAcert wird auf der 1. IT & Business Messe Stuttgart vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2009 mit einem Demo Point Neue Messe Stuttgart (Flughafen), Halle/Stand: 1H12-3 im Themenpark “Open Source Business Solutions” vertreten sein.
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CAcert at NLUUG Fall Conference – The Open Web
On Oct 29, 2009 the NLUUG will keep its Fall Conference – The Open Web.
One of the speakers, Henk Klöpping, will mention CAcert in his talk The Shameless Plug.
As it is custom CAcert wil have a boot there.
If you want to help and have successfully passed the Assurer Challenge pleace add your name on the list at the CAcert wiki.
Signing server outage [solved]
Friday August 14, 2009 19:15 CEST both the webserver and the signing server suffered from a short power glitch. Due to this power glitch both servers performed a spontaneous reboot. After a reboot both servers will wait for manual input, as a critical server engineer has to enter the decryption-password. The webserver can be managed remotely, this server was operational again Friday at 22:15 CEST.
The signing server cannot be managed remotely. In order to restart the signing server a visit has been made to the hosting center this morning. The signing server is operational again since Saturday Aug 15 10:30 CEST.
No other servers were involved. The signing server will be replaced with new hardware (with a dual power supply) within a few weeks, the new server is currently under test.
CAcert at Webmontag Berlin, Montag, 20. Juli 2009
der nächste Webmontag statt. Zu diesem Termin wird es für CAcert einen 10 minütigen Vortragsslot geben.
CAcert Assurer Training Event Berlin-Brandenburg am 9. Juli 2009
CAcert Assurer Training Event Berlin-Brandenburg
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Es hat sich viel getan im letzten Jahr. Eine ganze Reihe von bisher eher “mündlich überlieferten” Regeln wurden in Policies gegossen. Neue Prozeduren (z.B. die Assurer Challenge) und Verpflichtungen (z.B. in dem CAcert Community Agreement) wurden beschlossen. Die Assurer Training Events wollen versuchen, die ganzen Informationen “unter’s Volk” zu bringen:
– Wovor schützt die CCA jedes CAcert-Community-Mitglied und somit auch dich?
– Kannst du die 5 Statements der “Purpose of Assurance” aufzählen?
– Kannst du auf Anhieb 10 Sicherheitsmerkmale des deutschen Personalausweises aufzählen?
Antworten auf diese und weitere Fragen erhälst du bei den Assurer Training Events (ATE’s).
Der Termin für Berlin steht nun fest.
Berlin-Wilmerdorf,
Donnerstag 09. Juli 2009 in der Zeit von 19:00 bis 21:00 Uhr
Restaurant Prometheus
Schlangenbader Strasse
12345 Berlin-Wilmerdorf
– Berlin-Brandenburg, Donnerstag 9. Juni
Anmeldungen erfolgen bitte ausschliesslich über folgende Seite:
Anmeldung ATE-Berlin/Brandenburg
Die Teilnahme der Veranstaltungen ist kostenlos, Spenden werden aber gerne gesehen.
Details zum Veranstaltungsort und Anfahrthinweise findet Ihr im Wiki und
bei mixxt.de, siehe die Links oben.
Das Veranstaltungs-Team freut sich schon auf Eure Teilnahme.
Kontakt: events@cacert.org
