This was a work-in-progress for the 2008 New Roots Task Force. It is left in place for reference & interest, but is not an active project.
Conditions to recover sealed envelopes with keys from escrow
preliminary
CAcert Association
CAcert Inc. Association is an association incorporated under a slightly modified version of the model rules published by the NSW government under 1984 Associations Incorporations Act. The CAcert association By-Laws are registered with the Department of Fair Trading, NSW, Australia by Certificate of Incorporation as Association under the name CACERT INCORPORATED, incorporation number INC9880170 on 24 July 2003.
CAcert Inc. location details: CAcert Inc., P.O. Box 4107, Denistone East NSW 2112, Australia, http://www.cacert.org, email: cacert-board@lists.cacert.org .
For more details see the CAcert wiki page.
CAcert Inc. representation
The CAcert Inc. Committee (Board) and Public Officer is appointed by CAcert (Annual or Special) General Meeting. Public Officer is formal contact with NSW trade office. The board members are not registrated via the CAcert Public Officer (Australian citizen and registered contact person with Department of Fair Trade) with the trade office registrar. A list of current Board Members is listed on the wiki Board list.
Board from November 2008 till AGM planned November 2009:
title
name
profile
president
Teus Hagen
NL
vice-president
Evaldo Gardenali
BR
treasurer and public officer
Robert Cruikshank
AU
secretary (office)
Guillaume Romagny
FR
member
Philipp Dunkel
AT
member
Greg Stark
US
member
Alejandro Mery Pellegrini
CL
CAcert subjects for Escrow
The escrowed subjects are sealed envelopes with keys and passwords are referenced in this document as CAcert Sealed Envelopes (SE's).
The SE's consist of:
- Two white envelopes (type Barional A6), sealed with blue (3Com) security tape with three signatures in blue ink from Wytze van der Raay, Teus Hagen and Mendel Mobach, dated CAcert 28th of November 2008, with the identification:
- passwd escrow keys;
- escrow keys.
- Remark: on 28th of November 2008 pictures have been taken of these two envelopes.
The SE envelopes may contain: USB memory sticks and labelled with key labels, and/or list of passwords.
Conditions for key recovery
The sealed envelopes (SE's) are allowed to be recovered from Escrow under the following conditions:
Public notice of Key Recovery Decision (e.g. CAcert Inc. wiki page) from Board Meeting decision or CAcert Inc. General Meeting decision, decision defines:
- Identification of which sealed envelope to recover from escrow;
- Mandate to specified person (Key Recovery Officer), mentioned in the publicized recovery decision) to recover the envelope from escrow;
- Definition of actions to be performed by the Key Recovery Officer as specified in this publicized decision;
- Key Recovery Decision to be (digitally) signed by at least two Board members, included the Public Officer (Board Decision) or in the case of General Meeting decision: two CAcert Inc. association members, included the Public Officer or person acting as Public Officer, their names as defined in the General Meeting minutes. Names to be verified with the trade office extract (Public Officer), published Board members list, or in the case of General Meeting decision the General Meeting minutes as registered with the trade office.
- Report of actions taken after escrow recovery from Key Recovery Officer within 4 weeks.
Opening of any Sealed Envelope under four eye principle by CAcert Officers as appointed by CAcert Inc. under conditions of the CAcert Security Policy. Opening of SE procedure is not part of key escrow recovery conditions procedure.
Escrow location
The SE's are lacated with a dutch Notary with an Act of Preservation (Acte van Bewaarstelling): Notary Office XYZ, Village, the Netherlands. The Escrow was done on date YYYY-MM-DD, by Board Member Teus Hagen, notice of delivery: ????
The escrow costs is carried by CAcert Inc.
Sealed Envelopes location history
Upto the date of escrow the SE's has been located at a private safe with Teus Hagen as decided on 28th of November 2008 on Root Key Creation on the same date: 28th of November 2008.