Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,

Release 0.28 of the CA distribution available --------------------------------------------- A new distribution of Accredited Authorities by the EUGridPMA, release version 0.28, is now available for download from the EUGridPMA Repository

https://www.eugridpma.org/distribution/current/

You can download the new packages and install them at your convenience.

Changes from 0.27 to 0.28 ------------------------- (6 April 2005)

* Added the root certs for the newly accredited CAs "AustrianGrid" and "NIIF/Hungarnet" * updated signing policy file of SiGNET CA to handle new emailAddress DN component name * added "BalticGrid CA" in the "worthless" section, for experimentation by AndersW * UKeScience CA changed to SHA1 digest for the root certificate * new CRL and CA URLs for both CyGrid CAs

In this release, a configuring/installer tar-ball has been added as an alternative for the RPM installation. The tar-ball contains the accredited CAs and can be installed via the conventional triplet:

./configure [--prefix=path] && make && make install

For those using RPM based linux distribution, a "meta-RPM" is available from the repository, ca_policy_eugridpma-0.28-1.noarch.rpm, that contains dependencies on the RPMs of all accredited CAs. The repository is suitable for "yum" based automatic updates.

The next release (0.29) of the CA RPMs is expected in May 2005.

Regards, David Groep Chair.

PS: Please circulate this announcement widely as appropriate.