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If you have used any infrastructure services (like wiki, blog, translation system, bug tracker) in the last days, you’ve probably noticed that they feel much more responsive. That’s because we have moved those services to a new machine, kindly donated by Thomas Krenn as part of their open source initiative. The donation actually took place […]

CAcert and secure-u e.V. will be present at FOSDEM 2014, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, on February Sat 1th and Sun 2th 2014. Booth (Sat + Sun) Keysigning Party If you want to help at our booth, register yourself on our events wiki page for FOSDEM 2014 planning. CU at FOSDEM […]

From now on, certificates from CAcert are signed with SHA512 as signature hashing algorithm. Doing so, CAcert improves the security of newly issued certificates over the previously used, usual standard in the industry for certificate authorities. ... [More] Formerly created certificates remain valid of course. Due to limitations in Microsoft Windows XP without Service Pack 3 the […] [Less]

The community-based certificate authority CAcert issues the 1 millionth certificate. In the time of insecurity protection of data privacy is particularly important. The best data protection starts where no more data than necessary for service ... [More] delivery is stored. This is a basic principle for the activity of CAcert. In doing so CAcert performs all important […] [Less]

The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual meeting of the international hacker scene, organized by the Chaos Computer Club. It will take place from the 27th untill the 30th of december in the Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues. CAcert will […]

The move of all existing CAcert servers  to a new smaller rack at the current hosting centre has completed, mostly successful, on December 12 at 23:00 UTC. All main services are available again now, but we still have some smaller problems to sort out, mostly due to the switch-over to a new much more compact […]

On December 12 2013, we are planning to move all existing CAcert servers to a new smaller rack in the current hosting centre. In this new rack we will also have a new much more compact firewall installed, and a new energy-efficient infrastructure server. All good news, but the downside is that all CAcert servers […]

German Version below There will be an ATE in Amberg (DE) on 6th January 2014. More details on the wiki. There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending: - Email I will attend ATE-Amberg - Edit the wiki directly As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended […]

Due to maintance service there will be a short internet connection downtime for ALL CAcert internet services for about 5 min during the given time period. (see https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-sysadm/2013-11/msg00003.html) We appologize for any inconvience.    

Der IT-Security Community Xchange 2013 (IT-SeCX 2013) bietet eine Plattform, um sich mit Gleichgesinnten zum Themenkreis rund um die IT-Security auszutauschen! Die Fachhochschule St. Pölten öffnet am 8.11.2013 ab 17:00 Uhr ihre Türen für die “etwas ... [More] andere” Konferenz. Sie richtet sich an SystemadministratorInnen, sowie an SchülerInnen und StudententInnen, Lehrbeauftragte, ExpertInnen und Geeks, die sich für […] [Less]