Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,
In this announcement of the EUGridPMA:
1. New IGTF distribution version 1.15 available
We hope that you find this update useful and welcome any comments you
may have. Also, feel free to redistribute this information widely as
you see appropriate.
For more information about this newsletter and the mailing list,
please refer to the EUGridPMA web site at https://www.eugridpma.org/
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1. New IGTF distribution version 1.15 available
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A new distribution of Accredited Authorities by the EUGridPMA, based
on the IGTF Common Source, is now available. It includes the newly
accredited Authorities by all IGTF Members. This is version 1.15,
release 1, and it is now available for download from the Repository at
https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/current/
or
https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/1.15/
and this repository is also mirrored by the APGridPMA at
https://www.apgridpma.org/distribution/igtf/current
Changes from 1.14 to 1.15
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(9 July 2007)
* Temporarily removed ASGCC CA 2007 root certificate (TW)
On the ASGCCCA-2007:
This authority has been temporarily withdrawn on the request of the
ASGCCCA managers, since the root certificate distributed with the 1.14
release (in which it was introduced) has revealed inconsistencies in
the way some (grid) software implementations handle the representation
of the directory name.
These inconsistencies were most eminent in the parsing of the issuer
directory name used in the ASGCCA-2007 root certificate.
A new root certificate, using a different subject and issuer name, will
be re-introduced in the next IGTF release (1.16). In the mean time,
subscribers will continue to the use the existing "ASGCCA" CA (with
c_name hash a692434d). There are NO issues with the a692434d root
certificate; there is no change is status related to the pre-1.15 ASGCC
authority.
You can download the new packages and install them at your convenience.
If you part of a coordinated-deployment project (such as OSG, EGEE, LCG,
DEISA, NAREGI or others) you may want to await your project announcement
before installing this release.
Next Release
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The next release of the CA RPMs is to be expected in September 2007.
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Please remember new location of distribution "dist.eugridpma.info"
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The trust anchor distribution is served by a separate, stand-alone
system that serves only this static content:
https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/
with deep-redirection provided from the old download location.
The trust anchors in the distribution directory continue are digitally
signed with the EUGridPMA PGP key "3" (see details at the end of this
newsletter).
*** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS ***
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STANDARD CLAUSES AND REPEATED NOTICES: Distribution information
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Notice on directory structure
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*** ONLY CAs IN THE "accredited/" DIRECTORY and THE CAs INSTALLED
USING THE ca_policy_igtf-classic-1.15-1.noarch.rpm ARE ACCREDITED
Do *not* install certificates from the "worthless/" or "experimental/",
directories, except if you yourself review and accept their policy and
practice statement. The EUGridPMA provides these certificates in
this format for your convenience only, and to allow graceful changeover
for legacy installations.
*** All individual CAs packages, as well as the bundles, have the same
(common) version number "1.15" and release "1".
Distribution formats
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* the distribution traditionally contained a set of RPMs and tar-balls
per accredited authorities, as well as meta-RPMs that depends on the RPMs
of those accredited.
* the "tar-bundle" that can be used to install the authorities in a
local trust directory using the "./configure && make install"
mechanism has been renamed to avoid confusion. It is called:
igtf-policy-installation-bundle-1.15.tar.gz
It has the same functionality and can still be found in the
"accredited/" subdirectory.
* the accredited directory now contains two additional tar-balls that
contain, respectively, *all* "classic" and "slcs" accredited CAs:
igtf-preinstalled-bundle-classic-1.15.tar.gz
igtf-preinstalled-bundle-slcs-1.15.tar.gz
(note there are no SLCS-accredited authorities at this time)
* those CAs whose key-length is less than 4095 bits are also
available in a Java KeyStore (JKS), whose password is "eugridpma".
These is both a JKS for each individual CA, as well as a
"igtf-policy-accredited-classic-1.15.jks" in the "accredited/jks/"
sub-directory (also for -slcs).
APT and Yum
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As always, the repository is suitable for "yum" based automatic updates,
by adding to the yum.conf file:
[eugridpma]
name=EUGridPMA
baseurl=http://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/current/
gpgcheck=1
Also "apt" is supported. For details, see
http://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/current/apt/README.txt
Large deployment projects are kindly requested to mirror these directories
in their own distribution repositories.
RPM GPG signing
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Also this new RPM distribution is distributed with GPG-signed RPMs. The
key (ID 3CDBBC71) has been uploaded to the public key servers, along with
my signature as the EUGridPMA Chair (keyID 6F298418). The key is also
contained in the repository. You will need this key if you enable GPG
checking for automatic updates in "yum" or "apt".
Please remember to validate this distribution against the TACAR
trusted repository (https://www.tacar.org/) where possible.
Suggestions
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If you have suggestions or improvements for the distribution format,
to have it better suit your needs, please contact the PMA at
<info(a)eugridpma.org>. Note that there is be a common distribution format
across the entire IGTF (i.e. all three PMAs).
--
David Groep
** National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, PDP/Grid group **
** Room: H1.56 Phone: +31 20 5922179, PObox 41882, NL-1009DB Amsterdam NL **
