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During the last hours, the CAcert mailing list server was upgraded to the latest OS realease Debian Wheezy. Please let us know, if you experience any problems.

CAcert is gladly announcing you the next big event with CAcert attendance: August, 24th-25th in Hochschule Bonn-Rhein Sieg in Sankt Augustin, near Bonn/Cologne FrOSCon 8 (Free and Open Source Software Conference) will take place, and CAcert will have ... [More] a booth there as well. We are please to get in touch with you discussing about CAcert, recent trends […] [Less]

Lavabit has closed down its services as announced on Lavabit homepage, Silent Circle and maybe others have followed or will follow. Since CAcert requires members to be reachable by their primary email address we ask our members with Lavabit account to change their email address quickly. Just setup a second email address if you have not […]

[German version below] A German CAcert Community member received an email from a German certificate reseller, in which the reseller offered to do the renewal of the CAcert certificate through his website. Furthermore he offered a discount of 5% of the price. This email is incorrect as the reseller is not able to renew the […]

[English Version below] In den Medien[1] wurde jetzt bekannt, dass US-Regierungsbehörden zur Entschlüsselung der verschlüsselten Kommunikation möglicherweise die privaten Schlüssel von Dienstanbietern fordert. Bei der Zertifikatserstellung mit ... [More] CAcert-Zertifikaten verlassen die privaten Schlüssel niemals den Rechner des Anwenders und werden damit nicht etwa an CAcert übertragen. CAcert kann deshalb die privaten Schlüssel auch nicht weitergeben. Dadurch [...] [Less]

Starting with the recent update there is a field to enter a comment to better identify the different certificates within one’s list of certificates. This comment is only for internal and personal use and it will thus not be available in the certificate. The comment can be added during the creation process as well as [...]

German Version below There will be an ATE in Graz (AT) on 16th Augut 2013. More details on the wiki. There are a couple of options to indicate that you are attending: - Email I will attend ATE-Graz - Edit the wiki directly As IanG said: “The ATE or Assurer Training Event is exceptionally recommended for all [...]

The CAcert Blog (incl. its system) has been upgraded to recent software versions. With this also a new Theme had to be created to be compatible with the current version of the blog software. Please let me know, if anything was broken by the upgrade or anything does not work for you as expected.

[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 ... [More] utilizing CAcert issued certificates. Edig@s is the official standard for the grid gas business that covers more than 99% of [...] [Less]

[German version below] CAcert is able to celeberate two things: ten years service as Certificate Authority and 250,000 CAcert Communinty members! Each member is able to get client and server certificates for free. This shows: CAcert is a strong community and everyone is able to take part and move CAcert to the future. This can [...]