Some assurers from Szczecin will arrive at Open Radar Conference, which will take place at Silver Hotel in Szczecin, Poland on next thursday, 1st December (conference continues on Friday, at Technopark Pomerania, Szczecin). After short talk about CAcert and certificates (which will start at 12:00), around 13:45, we will be showing how to use digital certificates and assuring applicants.
CAcert Inc, the association within the Community, will held the AGM on Sunday 2011-11-27 21:00 UTC. Which makes it evening in Europe, afternoon in the Americas, and tomorrow morning in Australia. The meeting will be held in CAcert’s IRC channel #AGM
The agenda and preperations you’ll find under: AGM 2011-11-27
There are 3 special resolutions on the agenda:
The CAcert main webserver will be unavailable for about one hour on Wednesday November 23, 2011, starting at 10:00 UTC. A database update is scheduled to take place on that day between 10:00 UTC and 11:00 UTC. If you are interested in the technical details, please check https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=976.
We expect that the update will be completed within one hour. During the update the website cannot be accessed, and no certificates can be issued or revoked. Other CAcert services (CRL, OCSP, mailing lists, wiki etc) will remain available as usual.
German text first, english version below.
Am 12. und 13. November findet die OpenRheinRuhr im Rheinischen Industriemuseum direkt am Hauptbahnhof in Oberhausen statt. Eine Spitzenlocation für eine Veranstaltung über freie Software, bei der CAcert nicht fehlen darf.
Jeder Interessierte kann sich am Stand von CAcert über kostenfreien Zertifikate, darunter SSL-Serverzertifikate und Client-Zertifikate für sichere E-Mail-Kommunikation informieren. Fragen zur Benutzung und zum Einsatz der Zertifikate werden ebenfalls beantwortet.
English version
On November, 12th and 13th, the OpenRheinRuhr will take place at Rheinisches Industriemuseum directly located at Oberhausen central station. The Industriemuseum is an amazing location for an event about free and open source software. Of course, CAcert presents itself on this event.
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’ OpenRheinRuhr booth. Questions about the use of certificates and necessary know-how will be answered.
On the coming week-end, November, 5th/6th, 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 and some navigation to Eindhoven train station can be found on Google Maps.
El próximo viernes 14 de octubre 2011 a las 18 horas tendrá lugar en Medialab-Prado (Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid) la CAParty Madrid 2011, una fiesta de firmas PGP y CAcert.
Este tipo de eventos sirven a los usuarios de PGP y CACert para certificar sus identidades presencialmente y firmarse las correspondientes claves públicas, ampliándose así las redes de confianza de PGP y CACert. En el evento estarán presentes al menos tres notarios de CACert, quienes podrán otorgar puntos suficientes a los usuarios presentes, que servirán no solo para certificar suficientemente su identidad, sino también para crear nuevos notarios de esta red de confianza.
CAParty Madrid 2011 cuenta con la página web
http://caparty.geek.org.es/ donde se explican los detalles técnicos
del desarrollo de la jornada de firmas y una reseña en el wiki de
CAcert
http://wiki.cacert.org/Events/Medialab-Prado2011
La participación en la jornada es completamente libre y gratuita.
Acerca de CACert
CACert es una Entidad Certificadora conducida por la comunidad, que emite certificados digitales al público en general, de forma gratuita. Estos certificados, que pueden utilizarse para firmar correo electrónico, identificar sitios web o firmar aplicaciones, son similares a los que emiten otras entidades certificadoras, prestando un servicio cuyo precio rara vez es gratuito. CACert, por el contrario, emite sus certificados gratuitamente y utiliza las redes de confianza para certificar la identidad de los titulares de los certificados. Cualquier persona puede registrarse en la página web y comenzar a utilizar certificados, aunque para poder certificar su identidad en los mismos necesitará que algunos notarios de la red la verifiquen en un encuentro personal o en una fiesta de firmas.
Recently the hyphen rules in PracticeOnNames has been overworked and clarified.
Since this topic is surrounded by a great deal of confusion and unconfirmed rumors Assurers might have a look at it.
Saturday, 17th 2011, the worldwide Software Freedom Day or “Software Freedom International” (SFI) has been announced. In several cities around the world activities will be presented.
CAcert has representives at least in Cologne and Hamburg (both Germany).
The Hamburg event is held by Lug Balista.
The event at Cologne is at Coworking Cologne. Alexander Bahlo from CAcert will give a presentation “Signieren von Dokumenten in OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice”
For the English version see below.
Auch in diesem Jahr wird CAcert wieder auf der FrOSCon am 20. und 21. August in St. Augustin mit einem Stand vertreten sein.
Des Weiteren wird es in Zusammenarbeit mit OpenOffice einen Vortrag zum Thema “Signieren von OpenOffice-Dokumenten” geben.
Sprecht uns auf dem Stand an, um zu erfahren, welche Aktivitäten zur Zeit bei CAcert durchgeführt und geplant sind.
Mehr unter http://wiki.cacert.org/events/FrOSCon2011
English
CAcert will be present again with a booth on the FrOSCon in St. Augustin 20th/21st August.
Further more there will be a speech about “Signing of OpenOffice documents” together with OenOffice.
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 http://wiki.cacert.org/events/FrOSCon2011
If you received email today stating that one or more of your certificates was revoked than this action was initiated by CAcert. See the announcement on the blog.
For more background information see the Arbitration page and Hanno Böck’s blog post.
A short summary, some certificates were found for private keys which could easily be cracked because of one of the following reasons:
The CAcert web page has now been modified not to accept such weak keys for certificates in the future.
We wish to thank Hanno Böck for notifying us of this problem and giving us enough time to fix it before publishing it.