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EUGridPMA Distribution Format enhancements

It has come to the attention of the IGTF that the developers of the OpenSSL software are about to release a new version of their software which is fundamentally incompatible with both any pre-existing versions of their own software, as well as bring incompatibility with many other software products that use a directory-based trust anchor store, such as Apache's mod_ssl, the gLite Trust Manager, VOMS, etc.

Since the IGTF distributes the trust anchors of accredited authorities also in a way that used to work with OpenSSL, we feel that it is in the community's interest to keep supporting OpenSSL also for version 1, whilst ensuring that other softwares continue to work as before.

Read more in the February 15th newsletter ...