EUGridPMA - Building Trust for Distributed IT Infrastructures for Research

The EUGridPMA is the international organisation to coordinate the trust fabric for e-Infrastructure for research in Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa. It collaborates with the regional peers APGridPMA for the Asia-Pacific and The Americas Grid PMA in the Interoperable Global Trust Federation. The charter document defines the group's objective, scope and operation. It is the basis for the guidelines documents on the accreditation procedure, such as the Authentication profile for secured "classic" authorities and other IGTF recognised profiles supporting federated identity, as well as the dvelopment of guidelines and best practices fostering trust for authorization, attribute management and credential management. News and Quick Links Important messages and announcements (such as new distributions of the list of accredited authorities) are carried over the EUGridPMA Announce news service. Every relying party (that means: you) is strongly encouraged to subscribe. Subscription can be via e-mail or the Mailman web interface. You may also be interested in the following direct links: Current distribution of IGTF accredited authorities Getting your own certificate: find your national or regional authority Locate issuing authorities by certificate subject name Authentication Profiles managed by this PMA Getting the Roots of Trust An installable form of the IGTF trust anchor repository is provided in a variety of forms, such as RPM, deb's, tar-balls and Java Key Stores on the IGTF Distribution site. The latest version is currently 1.131 .

PMA Spotlight Update to 1.131 available An update to the trust anchor repository is now available as the 1.131 release with updated trust anchor information and new meta-data from the distribution web site. The September 30th newsletter contains the full announcement of the 1.131 distribution. Fetch-CRL3.0.22: for high volume environments The fetch-crl3 series utility facilitates downloading of timely revocation data for IGTF and other PKI infrastructures. Read the feature list and documentation and download it today. This release is also available from the Fedora Extras, EPEL, and Debian repositories. Version 3.0.22 addresses high-frequency (minute-scale) update scenarios Find your CA Find your national or regional issuing authority with the new clickable membership map. Read more...