Posts from May, 2012

Problems with signing certificates (Solved)

Posted by m.maengel
On May 27th, 2012 at 21:05

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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)

Posted by m.maengel
On May 23rd, 2012 at 10:05

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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.

CAcert and secure-u e.V. on LinuxTag 2012

Posted by Ted
On May 10th, 2012 at 20:05

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CAcert and secure-u e.V. are present at booths 244 and 251 in hall 7.2b during LinuxTag 2012, from March 23 to 26, in Berlin, Germany. For more details see the wiki page on LinuxTag2012.

OpenSSL gap in ASN1 parser

Posted by alexb
On May 6th, 2012 at 23:05

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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