<div dir="ltr">Thanks Brian, very interesting research. I am personally quite intrigued by that setup, and I guess I will follow along on the SAC list as the details are sorted out with QGIS PSC.<div>--</div><div>Jody</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2015 at 10:14, Brian M Hamlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maplabs@light42.com" target="_blank">maplabs@light42.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Board Members, Stakeholders, all -</p>
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<p> Following a recent disussion of purchasing and deploying Digital
Certificates [0][1] through the OSGeo infrastructure, I have followed up with a
little bit of research online regarding the newly-forming "Let's Encrypt"
Certificate Authority.</p>
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<p>Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority</p>
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<p>Blog Site:</p>
<p> <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" target="_blank">https://letsencrypt.org/</a></p>
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<p>"We’re pleased to announce that we’ve received cross-signatures from
IdenTrust [2], which means that our certificates are now trusted by all major
browsers. "</p>
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<p>Lets Encrypt Creation Post Nov 2014:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web</a></p>
<p>...</p>
<p>The core team working on the Let's Encrypt CA and agent software includes
James Kasten, Seth Schoen, and Peter Eckersley at EFF; Josh Aas, Richard Barnes,
Kevin Dick and Eric Rescorla at Mozilla; Alex Halderman and James Kasten and the
University of Michigan.</p>
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<p>Peter Eckersley EFF Chief Computer Scientist pde AT <a href="http://eff.org" target="_blank">eff.org</a></p>
<p>Seth Schoen EFF Senior Staff Technologist schoen AT <a href="http://eff.org" target="_blank">eff.org</a></p>
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<p> This morning I placed a phone call to Seth Schoen at EFF Offices in San
Francisco. I hope to be in contact with Seth or others shortly, to learn more
about the intended scope of Let's Encrypt Digital Certificates, the roadmap and
timeline.</p>
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<p>[0] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-October/013321.html" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-October/013321.html</a></p>
<p>[1] Digital Certificate
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_certificate</a></p>
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<p>[2] IdenTrust <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdenTrust" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdenTrust</a></p>
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<p>IdenTrust is a bank consortium acting as a public key certificate authority
and secure applications provider whose members include over 60 of the largest
banks in the world. Announced in 1999 ... Early on it adopted a
technology-neutral policy, developing standards equally usable by multiple
technology vendors. Initially located in New York City, it is now headquartered
in San Francisco. </p>
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