Jon Seager @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io
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Earlier this year, LWN.net featured an excellent article named "Linux's missing CRL infrastructure", and today I'm pleased to announce our plans to address that with a utility named 'upki'.

Canonical will be working with Dirkjan Ochtmann and Joe Birr-Pixton over the coming weeks to start bridging the PKI infrastructure gap - first for , but later for the wider Linux audience.

Get the details on the Ubuntu Discourse!

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/address

Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure

Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled “Linux’s missing CRL infrastructure”. The article highlighted a number of key issues surrounding traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), but critically noted how even the available measures are effectively ignored by the majority of system-level software on Linux. One of the motivators for the discussion is that the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) will cease to be supported by Let’s Encrypt. The remaining alternative is ...

discourse.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu Community Hub

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