The EUGridPMA - coordinating grid authentication in e-Science

The EUGridPMA is the international organisation to coordinate the trust fabric for e-Science grid authentication in Europe. It collaborates with the regional peers APGridPMA for the Asia-Pacific and The Americas Grid PMA in the International Grid Trust Federation. The charter document defines the group's objective, scope and operation. It is the basis for the guidelines documents on the accreditation procedure, the Authentication profile for X.509 secured "classic" certification authorities and other IGTF recognised Profiles. News and Quick Links Important messages and announcements (such as new distributions of the list of accredited authorities) are carried over the EUGridPMA Announce news service. Every relying party (that means: you) is strongly encouraged to subscribe. Subscription can be via e-mail or the Mailman web interface. You may also be interested in the following direct links: Current distribution of IGTF accredited authorites Getting your own certificate: find your national or regional authority Locate issuing authorities by certificate subject name Authentication Profiles managed by this PMA Getting the Roots of Trust An easy-installable form of the CA root certificates is provided by means of an RPM and a gzipped-tar-file repository on this web site. The latest version is currently 1.30. When using them as part of your infrastructure of project, please validate the integrity of these important roots of trust with the TERENA TACAR repository for those CAs registered there.

PMA Spotlight Update to 1.30 available An update to the trust anchor repository is now available as the 1.30 release with new and updated CA information from the distribution web site. The June 2nd newsletter contains the full announcement of the 1.30 distribution. Fetch-CRL updated The fetch-crl utility provided by the EUGridPMA has been upgraded to version EGP-2.7.0. Read more... Audit Guidelines asserting your trust level All CAs in the IGTF are subject to peer-reviewed audits, based on a well defined set of audit guidelines now being publicly reviewed by the Open Grid Forum community. Your input on these proposed Audit Guidelines, with specific examples for classic secured CAs, is highly appreciated by the OGF CA Operations working group. Read more... Find your CA Find your national or regional issuing authority with the new clickable membership map. Read more...