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CAcert.org is a community-driven Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free.
CAcert's goal is to promote awareness and education on computer security through the use of encryption, specifically by providing cryptographic certificates. These certificates can be used to digitally sign and encrypt email, authenticate and authorize users connecting to websites and secure data transmission over the internet. Any application that supports the Secure Socket Layer Protocol (SSL or TLS) can make use of certificates signed by CAcert, as can any application that uses X.509 certificates, e.g. for encryption or code signing and document signatures.
If you want to have free certificates issued to you, join the CAcert Community .
If you want to use certificates issued by CAcert, read the CAcert Root Distribution License .This license applies to using the CAcert root keys .
Latest News
CAcert ist wieder an den Konferenzen
Nach zwei virtuellen Ausgaben und Absagen kehrt nun langsam wieder eie gewisse Normalität in unser Leben ein. Auch Konferenzen finden wieder statt. Bereits diesen Sommer war CAcert in der Region Köln-Bonn an der FrosCon. Wie es mittlerweile Tradition ist, bieten viele Konferenzen freien und Open-Source-Projekten einen Stand, an dem sie ihre Arbeit “in echt” der […]
CAcert est de retour aux conférences
Après deux éditions virtuelles et des annulations, une certaine normalité revient peu à peu dans nos vies. Les conférences sont également de retour. Cet été, CAcert était déjà présent à la FrosCon dans la région de Cologne-Bonn. Comme c’est désormais la tradition, de nombreuses conférences proposent aux projets libres et open source un stand où […]
Behind the scenes …
… we’ve just activated our own OCSP-resolver on our new arm64-servers. This sounds a little bit unspectacular, but it’s a big milestone while replacing hard- and software within our environment as the old OCSP-resolver-software could not be ported to a recent debian and arm64-environment. All other critical services (like Nameserver and CRL-Serving) were already moved […]
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- Account Name: CAcert Inc
- SWIFT: WPACAU2S
- BSB: 032073
- Account No.: 180264
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