[German version below]
CAcert is now officially accepted by the Edig@s work group as a trusted
Certificate Authority (CA) for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). This
acceptance provides the basis to exchange messages securely between
companies utilizing CAcert issued certificates.
Edig@s is the official standard for the grid gas business that covers more than
99% of all western European gas deliveries. It validates the authenticity and
the binding character of the contract.
The open CA CAcert offers free advanced electronic signatures for corporate
and private use. This makes the usage of CAcert certificates interesting also for
small businesses.
[German Version]
Die Arbeitsgruppe Edig@s der europäischen Gasversorger hat CAcert offiziell
als Trusted Certificate Authority (CA) für den Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
zugelassen. Die Zulassung gilt als Grundlage für die Verwendung von durch
CAcert ausgestellten Signaturen im rechtsgültigen geschäftlichen Verkehr.
Edig@s ist der gültige Standard für das Ferngasgeschäft, über den 99% aller
internationalen Gaslieferungen in Westeuropa abgewickelt werden. Er
garantiert die Authentizität und Verbindlichkeit der getätigten Geschäfte.
Die offene CA CAcert bietet kostenfreie fortgeschrittene Signaturen für
Unternehmen und Privatpersonen an. Das macht die Verwendung von CAcert-
Signaturen auch für kleine Unternehmen interessant.
to finish all the projects from the bottom left corner at beginning of 2010 to the top right corner by end of the year with the “New Roots and Escrow” (
) process running. So this article should bring Audits mistery to light.
), that are essential for the Audit. One essential requirement for Audit is to Rollout the CAcert Community Agreement to all the members, so they can decide to continue or to leave the Community. To become “CCA Rollout Ready” (
), the running Software needs to be updated. This opens the next problem: by starting 2010, there was no Software Update Process defined, nor documented. But we’re on the lucky side, the Software-Assessment-Project started November last year to fulfill this requirement (
). The task was: To get a repository system controlled by Software-Assessment team, a controlled testserver environment and a documentation system. Currently the team tests the transfer of a test patch to the production system. Involved parties: Software-Assessment Project team, Software-Assessment team and the Critical Sysadmins team.
). ATE’s are an essential concept in the Audit over Assurance (RA) business area. To scale a worldwide community, the community has to assist Auditors work in doing Co-Audits over Assurers. The question: How to contact groups of Assurers was answered back in 2009 with the ATE concept. The purpose of ATE is twofolded: first to communicate to the Assurers all the new informations and second to do Co-Audits. As Assurers follows the invitations to the ATEs we can expect, that they are more active in the community. So also from 2009 ATE experiences, we’ve got new resources from the community by contacts on ATEs (
). This project is running about 2 years, but currently without progress.
), that was started last year, after Auditors review of the Software that concludes: „Serious difficulties in maintaining, improving and securing.” and „Cannot form conclusion over software.”, so if the plan to start with the Audit over the old Software fails, we’re close to the 2nd path: BirdShack.
), that becomes the ground base for the New Roots and Escrow project (