CAcert at T-DOSE, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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On the coming week-end, October, 27th/28th, Technical Dutch Open Source Event (T-DOSE) will take place at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven, Netherlands (about one hour drive from Duisburg, Germany, and Brussels, Belgium).

Who wants to get informed about free certificates, e.g. SSL-Server certificates, or client certificates for secure e-mail communication is invited to meet CAcert members for discussion on CAcerts’ T-DOSE booth. Questions about the use of certificates and necessary know-how will be answered.

The location linked in OpenStreetMap. Some navigation from Eindhoven train station can be found on Google Maps.

CAcert al Linux Day di Padova, 27 ottobre 2012

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Il Linux Day è una manifestazione italiana che ha lo scopo di promuovere il sistema operativo GNU/Linux e il software libero, e consiste in un insieme di eventi contemporanei organizzati in diverse città italiane.

Anche quest’anno durante l’edizione padovana del Linux Day alcuni assurer di CAcert saranno a disposizione dei visitatori per le verifiche di identità e in generale per spiegare agli interessati le finalità e il funzionamento di CAcert.

L’iniziativa si svolgerà nella sede del liceo artistico Modigliani, in via Scrovegni 30. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili sul sito del Free Software Users Group Padova, alla pagina relativa all’evento.

Szabad Szoftver Konferencia és Kiállítás 2012

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For English, see below.

A budapesti hackerspace ismét CAcert hitelesítést szervez a Szabad Szoftver Konferencia és Kiállításon, 2012. december 8-án az Óbudai Egyetemen (Bécsi út 96/b). Ha assurer vagy, gyere, ha assurert keresel, szintén! A részvétel a látogatók számára ingyenes, de regisztrációhoz kötött, további információ a konferencia honlapján olvasható.

The budapest hackerspace will do CAcert assurance on a FLOSS event called Szabad Szoftver Konferencia és Kiállítás on December 8, 2012 at the University of Óbuda (Bécsi út 96/b). You’re welcome to drop by, regardless if you’re an assurer or looking for assurance. Attending the event is free, but you have to register, more information can be found on the web page of the event.

Bug fixing

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The software developing team released recently some bug fixes that affect the users.

Firstly, the software now is able to give the correct assurer status. This has the effect that all assurers that have given assurances in the past but have not passed the CATS test will now no longer be shown as assurers until they have passed the test.

A second part is touching the Organisation section. A few changes were made in the presentation of the information. This affects the Organisation Administrators as well as the Organisation Assurers.

The software team is currently working on the fix for the faults in issuing of certificates in Internet Explorer. Help is needed in testing to check that all the changes are working properly.
If you are interested, join the test team under cacert-devel@list.cacert.org or have a look at the test instructions for Bug 964.

FrOSCon 2012 in St. Augustin 25./26. August 2012

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For the English version see below.

Auch in diesem Jahr wird CAcert wieder auf der FrOSCon am 25. und 26. August in St. Augustin mit einem Stand vertreten sein.
Des Weiteren wird es im Entwicklerraum “Freie Software für Betrieb und Verwaltung” einen Vortrag zum Thema “Zertifikate im betrieblichen Alltag” von CAcert geben.
Sprecht uns auf dem Stand an, um zu erfahren, welche Aktivitäten zur Zeit bei CAcert durchgeführt und geplant sind.
Mehr unter https://wiki.cacert.org/Events/FrOSCon2012

English
CAcert will be present again with a booth on the FrOSCon in St. Augustin 25th/26th August.
Further more there will be a speech about “Certificates in daily office work”.
Feel free to come along and ask us what CAcert is doing at the moment and what are the plans for the near future. More see https://wiki.cacert.org/Events/FrOSCon2012

PING e.V. Sommerfest, 18.8.2012, Dortmund

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Die Westfälische Rundschau und der PING e.V. laden am 18. August 2012 ab 15:30 Uhr zu „Abenteuer Ferien” ein.
Besucher haben an diesem Tag die Möglichkeit, hinter die Kulissen unseres Vereins zu schauen und die aktiven Mitglieder kennenzulernen.

Für diesen Tag haben die aktiven Mitglieder des PING e.V. ein vielseitiges Kurzvortragsprogramm vorbereitet. Die Vorträge dauern jeweils ca. 15 – 20 Minuten.

Im Anschluss an einen Vortrag besteht die Möglichkeit in einer lockeren Diskussionsrunde Fragen zu klären oder die eigene Erfahrung einzubringen. Weiter geht es nach einer kleinen Pause mit dem nächsten Vortrag. Selbstverständlich stehen dann die Referenten und die ehrenamtlichen Helfer des Vereins für Fragen und Diskussionen gerne zur Verfügung.

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  • Raspberry Pi – Der 25$ Computer

Des Weiteren werden ein PGP Keysigning und CAcert Assurance angeboten.

Weitere Informationen, Anfahrtdetails und last minute updates gibt es auf der Event-Seite

ATE Raleigh, US, August 11th

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Much has happened during recent years. The old way of orally-transmitted procedures has now gone, and our rules have been cast into formal policies. New procedures (e.g. the Assurer Challenge) and obligations (e.g. in the CAcert Community Agreement) have been approved.
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ATE Melbourne, AU, July 28th

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Much has happened during recent years. The old way of orally-transmitted procedures has now gone, and our rules have been cast into formal policies. New procedures (e.g. the Assurer Challenge) and obligations (e.g. in the CAcert Community Agreement) have been approved.
Continue reading →

Security incident

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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.

Server Downtime 2012-06-26 about 12:00 UTC to 14:00 UTC

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Since the hard disk of the signing server has become unreliable, it has to be changed. With that several other services will not be available too.