Hello everyone,

I'm writing a thesis about PKI's (X.509 being one of them) and I'll be
deploying an X.509 one as a practical part of my work. The
implementation must be Open Source and it may be that after installed
it will be used in the future by university.

I've found projects OpenCA and OpenXPKI, read their sites but I need
some clarification.

It is my understanding that OpenCA is no longer under development,
only bugs (security related?) are fixed, last version being 0.9.5.
OpenXPKI project is the next version of OpenCA, there is all
development going, the first release is scheduled in late 2006 and
it's not working yet. Is that correct?[1]

If it is, I thought about installing OpenCA and then moving it to
OpenXPKI once it's released (it probably won't be me). Is this a good
idea? Can someone shed some light would that be possible and how hard
(or easy) could that be? The platform preferred would be FreeBSD if
that's related.

An off-topic question - if anyone knows about other Open Source X.509
PKI related projects please let me know. I've found some in
Open-source PKI Book[2] but most of the links are dead now (I guess
the book project is dead, too).

I'm sorry for any language mistakes I probably made, English is not my
first language. I hope it's readable ;)

Thank you in advance,

Karol


P.S. I posted similar message to OpenXPKI-users list to catch more
people. I hope that's OK.

[1] I've read this post but I'm missing some details:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=29079529&forum_id=48958

[2] http://ospkibook.sourceforge.net/

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