Dear CAs, Relying Parties, and others,

New CAs approved ---------------- On October 20th, the EUGridPMA released a new version of the Accredited Authorities distribution: version 0.24. This distribution is now available on the web site at

http://www.eugridpma.org/distribution/0.24/

All relying parties that accept the Minimum Requirements (now at version 3.1) as sufficient, can update to the new Roots of Trust at their convenience. A change log is included in this mail at the bottom. Note that the updated LIP CA will start issuing certs from the new root CA quite soon.

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Changelog for 0.23->0.24 ------------------------ * Added the Slovenian SiGNET CA with hash 747183a and alias: SiGNET * Added the SEE-GRID CA with hash 468d15b3 and alias: SEE-GRID * Added the Estonian Grid CA, with hash 566bf40f and alias: EstonianGrid * Added the updated LIP CA (called "LIPCA") with hash 11b4a5a2, which will supercede the old one with hash 41380387. The "LIP" one will remain in the repository will the end of 2005. * Added RPM requirements that reflects CA chaining: CNRS-Projects requires CNRS CNRS-DataGrid requires CNRS-Projects DOEGrids requires ESnet