Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,
In this announcement of the IGTF:
1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.58 available
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1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.58 available
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A new distribution of Accredited Authorities by the Interoperable Global
Trust Federation, based on the IGTF Common Source, is now available. It
includes the newly accredited Authorities and retires expiring trust
anchors.
This is version 1.58 release 1 and it is now available for download from
the Repository (and mirrors) at
https://dist.igtf.net/distribution/igtf/current/
Changes from 1.57 to 1.58
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(30 June 2014)
* Added accredited classic InCommon Server IGTF SSL CA and intermediate
Comodo RSA CA (SHA-2) (US)
* Extended permitted namespaces for AddTrust-External-CA-Root (EU, US)
* Updated CILogon Basic CA from experimental to accredited:iota (US)
* Updated certificate URL for IHEP-CA-2013 39d30eba (CN)
* Discontinued expiring SEE-GRID '2004' CA - since replaced by
new SEEGRID-CA-2013 (GR)
* Discontinued retired PRAGMA-UCSD CA (US)
Next Release
------------
Releases are usually done on the last Monday of the month, only when
the trust anchor distribution has been updated substantially. The
currently-estimated next release date of the distribution is at the
end of August 2014.
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REPEATED NOTICES
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Use in coordinated-deployment infrastructures
---------------------------------------------
If you are part of a coordinated-deployment infrastructure (such as a
national e-Infrastructure, EGI, OSG, PRACE-RI, NAREGI and others) you
may want to await your project announcement before installing this
release.
The download repository is also mirrored by the APGridPMA at
https://www.apgridpma.org/distribution/igtf/
and by the EUGridPMA at
https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/
About this news letter
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This newsletter carries IGTF information intended for relying parties.
For more information about this newsletter and how to subscribe, refer
to the EUGridPMA web site at https://www.eugridpma.org/
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| For information on the IGTF Distribution, how to use it and what is |
| contains, please read the information at |
| https://dist.igtf.net/distribution/igtf/README.txt |
| |
| This file contains important information for new users and should be |
| read before installing this Distribution. |
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If you have suggestions or improvements for the distribution format,
to have it better suit your needs, please contact the EUGridPMA PMA at
<info(a)eugridpma.org> or your Regional Policy Management Authority. See
the IGTF web site (www.igtf.net) for further information.
--
David Groep
** Nikhef, Dutch National Institute for Sub-atomic Physics,PDP/Grid group **
** Room: H1.50 Phone: +31 20 5922179, PObox 41882, NL-1009DB Amsterdam NL **
Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,
In this announcement of the IGTF:
1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.57 available
2. Updated fetch-crl3 (3.0.13) with improved configuration and
startup resilience options
=========================================================================
1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.57 available
=========================================================================
A new distribution of Accredited Authorities by the Interoperable Global
Trust Federation, based on the IGTF Common Source, is now available. It
includes the newly accredited Authorities and retires expiring trust
anchors.
This is version 1.57 release 1 and it is now available for download from
the Repository (and mirrors) at
https://dist.igtf.net/distribution/igtf/current/
Changes from 1.56 to 1.57
-------------------------
(2 June 2014)
* Discontinued obsoleted IHEP (2009) CA ba2f39ca (CN)
* Removed discontinued NCSA Two Factor CA following migration
to NCSA Two Factor CA 2013 (US)
Next Release
------------
Releases are usually done on the last Monday of the month, only when
the trust anchor distribution has been updated substantially. The
currently-estimated next release date of the distribution is at the
end of June 2013.
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2. Updated fetch-crl3 (3.0.13) with improved configuration and startup
resilience options
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A new minor release of fetch-crl is now available from the IGTF
distribution web site. This new version allows for faster response times
on system boot (if configured to run at boot time), and has improvements
for caterign with unresponsive CRL URLs.
Most important changes in version 3.0.13:
* Supplied system init script for boot phase will not re-run
inadvertently
* Add rcmode config option (added differentiated reporting and
success-on-solely-retrieval-errors)
* Add --define key=val command line argument to augment configuration
data
For documentation see http://www.nikhef.nl/grid/fetchcrl3/, and you can
download the new version in RRM and source form at
https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/util/fetch-crl/
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REPEATED NOTICES
=========================================================================
Use in coordinated-deployment infrastructures
---------------------------------------------
If you are part of a coordinated-deployment infrastructure (such as a
national e-Infrastructure, EGI, OSG, PRACE-RI, NAREGI and others) you
may want to await your project announcement before installing this
release.
The download repository is also mirrored by the APGridPMA at
https://www.apgridpma.org/distribution/igtf/
About this news letter
----------------------
This newsletter carries IGTF information intended for relying parties.
For more information about this newsletter and how to subscribe, refer
to the EUGridPMA web site at https://www.eugridpma.org/
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| For information on the IGTF Distribution, how to use it and what is |
| contains, please read the information at |
| https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/README.txt |
| |
| This file contains important information for new users and should be |
| read before installing this Distribution. |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
If you have suggestions or improvements for the distribution format,
to have it better suit your needs, please contact the EUGridPMA PMA at
<info(a)eugridpma.org> or your Regional Policy Management Authority. See
the IGTF web site (www.igtf.net) for further information.
--
David Groep
** Nikhef, Dutch National Institute for Sub-atomic Physics,PDP/Grid group **
** Room: H1.50 Phone: +31 20 5922179, PObox 41882, NL-1009DB Amsterdam NL **
