OpenCA 0.9.2 RC4 is finished. We land a lot of patches on the CVS and we hope this will solve several problems. There are so many fixes that I can only notice the most important ones.
First the documentation. I know that it is not big enough and that there are many things which the people needs but now you can extend it by your own because it is fully compilable with Open Source tools.
Second we added support for Microsoft Smartcard and Domain Controller certificates. You have to install OpenCA with OpenSSL 0.9.7. After this you must install an OpenSSL snapshot and change the reference to the new OpenSSL binary. Sounds complicated? Nothing is for free, but it is documented. BTW you have not to know such things like the OIDs from Microsoft.
Third there are lot of fixes for the access control. Things like X.509 authentication works now for all interfaces. There are roles for normal accounts too and ACLs are activated by default.
Fifth there are many enhancements for the new batchsystem. Yes, we develop a complete new one because of the poor performance and the complicated extension of the first one in 0.9.1. The new system is much more flexible and includes a simple state machine. Like the old system it includes a mechanism for key recovery. Every function is now in a seperate. This makes it really easy to customize checks or special behaviours.
The last enhancement are the bugfixes and small new features. We added several new errormessages to give you more details if something fails. This should support you with more hints if the first startup of OpenCA fails. A feature which was requested for years but never implemented is the PIN verification on the RA. It is now possible that a user enters it's PIN on the RA to identify him. Several fixes try to make CRRs working but there is still an open issue with signed CRRs.
I hope this summary helps a little bit to give you an idea why it takes so long. There will be definitely an RC5 to land the last patches for CRRs and to integrate a new language.
The OpenCA Team
Importend Notes:
you will find the current RC4 at the moment at our sourceforge area: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20873&package_id=17066
the offical dl openca-pages will be updated in the next days: http://www.openca.org/openca/downloads.shtml
openca-homepage: http://www.openca.org
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