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AGM 2013/2014 - Diary

• Diary from year before AGM Diary 2010-2013

Proposed date for AGM: 2014-07-20

Reviewed:

• board motions

• blog

• Community/Update

• Board's minutes

To review:

• Annual Report forward looking statement (2009 - replace with 2013/2014)

Notes:

• DO NOT bother with formatting or links because this has to be reformatted for final publishing in some document preparation tool

• only major events are entered here ... if it is better reported by the Team then we should do that.

CAcert's Year

July 2013 to June 2014

• Oophaga closing down
  • In spring 2013 Oophaga informed CAcert about it's closedown. An agreement with secure-u! was set up to continue. The final agreements were signed in August 2013.

• New roots & escrow

  • An agreement was signed to force the generation and escrow of new (audit-conform) root certificates.
• CA/B-forum
  • An agreement is to be signed by a CAcert Inc. member to be an interested party in the CA/B-forum.
• New community-portal cacert.eu
  • A new community-portal was launched. This is one step to move the "find an assurer"-function from critcal to non-critical.
• Moved CAcert-Hardware to a smaller cabinet
  • During winter CAcert-Hardware at BIT was moved to a half-size cabinet to save money. Thanks to BIT!
• New server
  • During winter a new infrastructure-server had been installed at BIT. This server is bigger, less power-consuming and therefore saves money. Thanks to secure-u and Thomas Krenn.
• Removed Tunix-firewall and phone-line for router-configuration
  • During winter the outdated firewall had been replaced by the critical team.
• Organisation Assurer
  • Appointed Andreas Terpotiz as new Organisation Assurer.
  • Appointed Daniel Salcher as new Organisation Assurer.
• Trusted Third Party Extension
  • Allow TTP-assurers to nominate new team members
  • Extended TTP to more countries
• Internal Audit
  • Appointed Benedikt Heintel as internal auditor
• CCA agreement change
  • Inform all members about a change in the CCA acceptance in software
• Policy Officer
  • Appointed Eva Stöwe as new Policy Officer
• PGP/GnuPG keyserver
  • Installed a new keyserver to protect privacy when signing PGP/GnuPG-keys
• Heartbleed
  • Board recognised the significant effort made by all in resolving this incident.
• continuing moving CAcert to Europe
  • A team (build by boardmembers and non-board-members) is working heavily on the move to Europe.
• Security issues
  • Heartbleed
    • In the beginning of April there were a security issue named Heartbleed.
    • Critical servers were not affected, some non-critical servers were affected.
    • Software was updated nearly immediately, certificates were replaced and passwords changed.
  • Internal secure-team-communication
    • Initiated by the heartbleed-discussion team-wide secure-communications was requested.
• Arbitration
  • Appointed Eva Stöwe as a new case manager and Arbitrator
• Milestones reached during the last year
  • CAcert issued over 1 million certificates
  • Software team installed the "CCA"-rollout patch, where every member has to agree to the CCA actively
  • More than 250.000 CAcert community members
  • Added more Hash-Algorithms to extend CAcert certificate security

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