Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,
In this announcement of the IGTF:
1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.62 available 2. Notice for system operators using the (issuer-subject) combination for identifying users
========================================================================= 1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.62 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 1.62 release 1 and it is now available for download from the Repository (and mirrors) at
https://dist.igtf.net/distribution/igtf/current/
Changes from 1.61 to 1.62 ------------------------- (23 February 2015)
* Added Root CA 2 for NIIF (HU) * Extended validity period for pkIRISgrid CA (ES) * Updated DigiCert root CA meta-data in preparation for TCS (US) * Included GEANT TCS CA G3 trust anchors (EU) * Temporarily suspended HIAST/74c6eaeb for operational reasons (SY) * Discontinued ULAGrid-CA-2008 CA (VE) * Discontinued NCHC CA (TW)
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 March 2015.
========================================================================= 2. Notice for system operators using the (issuer-subject) combination for identifying users =========================================================================
The IGTF coordinates a trust fabric that provides unique non-reassigned identifiers to end-entities (users). This means that, with the scope of the IGTF authorities, you can use the subject name as a key to e.g. community membership databases, and to assign data ownership and access rights.
Several updates to this trust anchor distribution incorporate changes to the name of the issuing authority, but the name of the end-entities and the users remains exactly the same. This usually permits users to use those new issuing services without loosing (data) ownership or community memberships.
However, the IGTF is aware that some systems, in particularly VOMS and VOMS-Admin, were traditionally deployed such that also the issuer was used to identify the users. To make the changes in this and future releases transparent, all operators of VOMS and VOMS-Admin services are requested to enable the subject-only name resolution mechanisms in VOMS and VOMS Admin:
- on the VOMS core Attribute Authority service, configure the "-skipcacheck" flag on start-up. In YAIM this is done by setting "VOMS_SKIP_CA_CHECK" to true. See https://wiki.italiangrid.it/twiki/bin/view/VOMS/VOMSYAIMGuide - update VOMS-Admin to version >= 3.3.2, and set "voms.skip_ca_check=True" in the service properties. For more info, read the release notes at http://italiangrid.github.io/voms/release-notes/voms-admin-server/3.3.2/
For other products, please refer to the documentation provided by your supplier. Products such as Apache httpd itself and most web-based products (MediaWiki, TWiki, etc) use subject-name matching only and are thius fully compatible. No changes are needed for these and like products.
========================================================================= 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/ and by the EUGridPMA at https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/
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