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CAcert is proud to announce that the Trusted Third Party Programme is back to life
The software team was able to finish the last fixes so that the Trusted Third Party (TTP) programme is working again. At present there are two restrictions:the TTP programme is only rolled out for Australia, Puerto Rico and USA. This means you can only take part if you can visit ...
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Root installer package for Windows Truststore
[Deutsche Version unten]The software team applied a patch which gives Windows users a chance to install the CAcert root certificates via an installer package. This package is found on the root certificate page http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3. Furthermore the Software team is working on a root installer package for the Mozilla truststore. The ...
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CAcert web server downtime on April 3, 2013
The CAcert webdb server will be upgraded and migrated to another server with better hardware running Debian Squeeze on Wednesday April 3, 2013. During the migration, the web server (including the signing server) will not be available for users. We expect that the total downtime will be less than two ...
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