Am 2. Februar 2006, um 19:30, treffen wir uns in den Räumen des CCC Hamburg und authentifizieren Interessierte. Für alle Beteiligten ein absolutes Muß: Ihr müßt zwei gültige, offizielle, auf euch ausgestellte Dokumente mit Lichtbild (Führerschein, Personalausweis oder Reisepaß) vorlegen.
https://www.hamburg.ccc.de/2006/01/26/61
CAcert Web of Trust signing Party at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zürich (HGKZ) next Thursday, 9th of February 2006 12:30 – 13:30h in the main building, room Nr. 504 (5th floor) at Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8031 Zurich, Switzerland. Here is the map
At least 3 Assurers will assure up to 35 points each.
Contact Alex Antener alex.antener@hgkz.ch +41 43 446 2138 for further information.
At the FOSDEM conference taking place 25th and 26th of February 2006 in Brussels, Belg ium(see: fosdem ) you will be able to get your CAcert Assurance done as well to get your GNUPG public key signed. There is a signing party scheduled in the late afternoon at Saturday 25th. For more details see: key signing .
For the Ohio Linuxfest we had a number of portable verification devices (aka coffee mugs), made up as donationware items. We over estimated the demand and we have a quantity of these left over and are offering them primarily for those in the US (due to postage costs).
We’re offering these mugs for a minimum donation of $10 (unless you want to pick up in the Columbus area or donate more money), the cost break down is $5 for the mug, and $5 is to cover banking fees and postage.
I will be manning the booth for CAcert at the ApacheCon 2005 US meeting in San Diego. I plan to be at the booth from at least 09:00 in the morning through 16:00 in the afternoon. I will stay later if there are still people coming by. Please bring as many people as you can to have assurance added to their accounts. It will help to have CAP forms pre-printed with the applicant’s information, but I will have blanks with me as well. Remember, 2 forms of official ID will be needed, at least one being photo.
I will most likely not have a computer available for people to sign up on the spot, but I can always check ID and complete paperwork, then enter in assurance points after they sign up later.
I will be happy to cross-sign GPG/PGP keys as well, so be sure to bring key fingerprints along if you want to add to your keyring signatures. On the same note, please let me know if a key signing party is being planned.
If there is anybody that can not attend the conference itself, but would like to be assured, please let me know and we can meet in the hotel lobby outside of the regular conference hours.
Feel free to contact me CAcert at mail4geeks dot com if you have any questions or would like to arrange a meet up while I am in town.
As of about 5 minutes ago I put the finishing touches on code to allow people to make changes to the location data.
This includes being able to move locations between regions, adding and deleting locations and adding and deleting regions.
If you delete a region it will also delete any locations hanging off it.
So those making changes should only use deletes as a last resort as this has implications for users that have selected a location for their location.
Moving a location between regions will not have any impact on users as the region will be updated for all users etc.
The plan is to also replace the current system of listing yourself, you will simply be able to type in your location and hopefully the system will be able to narrow it down so this should be a lot quicker and more efficient. Also finding assurers will gain the same ability to type in a location and the system will in turn the system will display the closest 100 assurers.
Currently people store their location against their user record, I’m planning to split this off into it’s own table so users can store multiple locations.
The Rensselaer Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery will be holding a PGP key signing and CAcert Assurance party. The meeting will start at 8pm Monday December 5th, 2005, and will be held in room 102 of Lally Hall on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus.
More information at http://www.rpi.edu/~duprec/gpg/
I’ve been asked for volunteers to attend the SoCal Linux Expo which is on between the 11th and 12th of Feburary 2006. We’ve been offered a booth and so we are looking for a couple of people to sit on it. We (CAcert Inc) can put funding toward this to cover flights, transfers to and from the airport and hotel accomodation during the Expo.
The conditions for funding is you must currently have 100 assurance points (ie be an assurer), you must be willing to sit on the booth for the majority of the time (10am till 4pm minimum), and preference will be given to those that already have assurances under their belts and/or manned a CAcert booth at other conferences even if it costs a little more for their flights.
Any questions or for further information please email me directly, but there needs to be a decision made on this as soon as possible to ensure people that fly in will have a place to stay etc close to the conference.
We’re currently looking for up to 2 people on the North American continent, close to San Diego would be an advantage to us, as we need people to man a CAcert booth for at Apache Con 2005 (10th to the 14th of December), we (CAcert Inc) can allocate some funding that can be used to cover flights/accommodation/other expenses (printing etc).
As always there is a couple of catches, firstly you must currently have 100 assurance points (ie be an assurer), you must be willing to sit on the booth for the majority of the time (10am till 4pm minimum), and preference will be given to those that already have assurances under their belts and/or manned a CAcert booth at other conferences even if it costs a little more for their flights.
Of course the benefit is that you end up getting to spend some time in warm and possibly sunny Southern California during the North American winter 🙂
Any questions or for further information please email me directly, but there needs to be a decision made on this as soon as possible to ensure people that fly in will have a place to stay etc close to the conference.
Nokia has included the root certificate of CAcert into the new Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. This makes it possible to use secure websites, encrypt and digitally sign emails with free certificates from CAcert.org.
Currently Knoppix, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and other Linux distributions have incorporated CAcert into their products already, Nokia is the first commercial vendor to approve CAcert for it’s products. One of the main goals of CAcert was to be included in major browsers and CAcert continues to actively pursue other vendors such as Opera, Mozilla and Microsoft to be included as part of their browsers.
CAcert is a community certification authority that issues free SSL certificates worldwide for individuals and organisations, and CAcert aims to enable better privacy for the Internet. CAcert is committed to high standards of security and verification, to achieve this goal CAcert operates a worldwide network of Assurers who are verifying the identities according to the 4 eyes principle (or better), to have a high level of verification as it is of little benefit having security if you aren’t sure who you really are communicating with at the other end.
