SANE (network and systems admin conference) Cacert Assurances in Delft Holland

At the SANE2006 system and network admin conference running from 15th of May 2006 up to Friday 19th of May 2006 in Delft, Holland (see SANE2006) CAcert Assurances as well PGP signing can be done. At Wednesday 17th of May 2006 there is from 18:30 a special (free entrance) Bazar with a CAcert booth to obtain your assurance or to assure others.

The event location is: TU Delft, Aula Congress Centre, Mekelweg 5, Delft, Holland.

Be prepared and do your preparations see CAcert web site or SANE2006 CAcert info.

CAcert Assurances at USENIX’06 conf May 30-June 3 2006, Boston USA

At the annual technical USENIX’06 conference running from 30th of May till June 3rd, 2006 in Boston, USA you will be able to be assured by CAcert Assurers and obtaining more information at the Birds of Feather session at one of the evenings at the conference. If you only want to be assured and not attend the conference feel free to walk in and ask for a CAcert Assurer. If you want your PGP key signed feel free to drop in as well.

Be prepared and visit the CAcert web site for the preparations (Assurer Forms, registration account, etc.).

For more information see BOSTON06

CAcert assurance at “Debconf 2006?

There will be a coordinated CAcert assurance event happening at the 6th annual Debian conference (Debconf6) being held in Oaxtepec, Mexico between May 14th and May 22nd. The assurance process will take place during the GPG key signing party (Friday, 19th of May, 2006 at 18:00). Please watch for announcements in case of any changes.

To obtain assurance at the event, login to the CAcert site and click the “CAcert Web of Trust” menu, and then click on one of the WoT forms. Print that form out, verify that it has complete and accurate information, bring it and 2 forms of government issued photo identification (one will be accepted, but two are preferred in case of document validity doubts). Please also read over the following pages: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceIntroduction and http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP.
If you are unable to attend the key signing party, or the conference itself, please contact micah atsymbol debian point org to arrange alternatives to assurance.

Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden naht mit grossen Schritten

CAcert wird auch dieses Jahr wieder Assurances auf dem Linuxtag in Wiesbaden vom 3. – 6. Mai 2006 durchführen.
Interessierte können sich unter http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/LinuxTag informieren.

Poland: Po?wiadczanie to?samo?ci podczas FreeCONu 2006 (22-23 kwietnia)

Podczas konferencji “FreeCON 2006“, która odb?dzie si? 22 i 23 kwietnia we Wroc?awiu, b?dziemy (tzn. grupka assurerów CAcertu) po?wiadcza? to?samo?? osób chc?cych uzyska? certyfikat CAcert.org.

Ch?tnych prosimy o zapoznanie si? z http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP i przyniesienie co najmniej 2 dokumentów to?samo?ci ze zdj?ciem, wydanych przez jednostki administracji pa?stwowej.

Je?li nie b?dziesz uczestniczy? w konferencji, a chcia?by? uzyska? po?wiadczenie to?samo?ci, mo?emy umowi? si? na mie?cie lub w holu hotelu.

Kontakt: tom.CAcert * gmail kropka com

Translation:

CAcert assuring at “FreeCON 2006” (22-23 April) in Wroclaw, Poland.

At the “FreeCON 2006” conference taking place on 22nd and 23rd of April in Wroclaw, Poland, we (a group of CAcert assurers) will be doing CAcert assuring.

Willing applicants, please read http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP and bring at least 2 government issued photo ID documents.

In case you aren’t attending the conference itself, but you would like to be assured, please let me know and we can meet in the city or in the hotel lobby.

Contact me at tom.CAcert * gmail point com

EFF discovers NSA Wiretap on AT&T traffic

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T, claiming that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the hands of the NSA wholesale, in violation of federal wiretapping laws and the Fourth Amendment.

EFF Breaking News

CAcert assurers at FISL7.0, Brasil

O Sétimo Fórum Internacional de Software Livre acontece nos dias 19, 20, 21 e 22 de Abril no Centro de Exposições FIERGS, em Porto Alegre – RS, Brasil. Teremos um stand do Grupo de Usuários CAcert Brasil com certificadores efetuando certificações gratuitamente durante o evento. Para mais informações, contacte Evaldo Gardenali < evaldo AT gardenali DOT biz >

The Seventh edition of the Internal Free Software Forum happens on April 19th – 22th, in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. We will have a CAcert Brazil User Group booth there, with assurers doing assurances for free during the event. For more information, contact Evaldo Gardenali < evaldo AT gardenali DOT biz >

SGVLUG Registration Event, Los Angeles, CA, USA

San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group
Will hold a registration event as part of it’s April 13, 2006 meeting held from 7-9 PM PST. at the campus of the California Institute of Technology, Downs Physics Bldg,#47-107, Pasadena, California, USA.

SGVLUG Website
Caltech Calendar

2006-05-03 – Acreditação CAcert em Leiria (Portugal) na CRSC’2006

(Translated bellow)

No dia 3 de Maio de 2006, durante a CRSC’2006 (Conferência em Redes e Serviços de Comunicação), irá decorrer o primeiro evento de acreditação CAcert em Portugal entre as 9:30 e as 18:00. Aí poderá obter a pontuação máxima de uma só vez.

Os interessados devem ler http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP e trazer 2 documentos emitidos pelo governo (por exemplo BI e carta de condução)

Para mais informações sobre a conferência e a sua localização consultar http://www.dei.estg.ipleiria.pt/eventos/crsc2006/

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Translation:

On the 3rd of May 2006 during the CRSC’2006 (Conferência em Redes e Serviços de Comunicação), it will occur the first CAcert meeting in Portugal between 9:30 and 18:00. There you will be able to get the maximum trust points.

Those who are interested should read http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP and bring 2 government issued ID documents.

More information about the conference and its location on http://www.dei.estg.ipleiria.pt/eventos/crsc2006/

Is there a Moore’s Law for Certificates?

The issue of statistics came up again today (as it does from time to time), currently CAcert is experiencing linear growth rates both in the number of certificates issued each month and the numbers of new signups. Assurances tend to be a bit spikey depending how many conferences attended.

In any case, the number of certificates issued has more then doubled in the past 10 months (about May last year is the half way point) so one must wonder where things are headed if the same trend continues.

Some quick stats for people, about the begining of this month we issued our 100,000th certificate, and about the same time we had our 50,000th signup, and by this time next year we could easily have more then double both those numbers.