[792] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: EuroCert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no)
Thu Jul 27 10:52:02 1995
From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
To: "John Hemming (Chief Executive MarketNet )" <JohnHemming@mkn.co.uk>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 1995 08:07:00." <116259F3BEC@pat.mkn.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:10:15 +0200
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
John,
I don't know who "we" are in the sentence
> 1. FYI we are establishing EuroCert a Certification Authority
for the continent of Europe.
but I know of two different initiatives within or allied to the
European Commission's Fourth Framework program, in the subsection
"telematics for researchers".
One, which also wants to be open to other participants, is the
Euro-CERT initiative, which after a few false starts may finally be
on the edge of reality, offering an established point of contact and
coordination between the Computer Emergency Response Teams in Europe.
This has, per se, nothing to do with certification.
Another, the ICE/TWICE project, aims to establish an Europe-wide
certification structure, probably based on X.509 certificates, for
use by any mechanism that wants it, with the aim of being useful
for the CERTs as an initial user community.
If you know of things apart from these, I would like to know, but
please don't confuse a CERT with a Certification Authority.
Harald A
