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Last update: 11 May 2009

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TACAR
TERENA Academic CA Repository

Background

A major problem linked to the use of Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) is how to get the appropriate root CA certificates needed by users browsers in a practical and cost-effective manner. A possible solution that can be applied within the TERENA community is the provision of a trusted repository which can contain verified root-CA certificates. This concept, now know as TACAR (TERENA Academic CA Repository) was originally proposed by members of TF-AACE, and accepted by the TTC and TEC.

The certificates to be collected are those directly managed by the member NRENs, or those belonging either to a National Academic PKI in the TERENA member countries (NPKIs), or those managed by institutions to support non-profit research projects that involve the academic community.

Policy

A policy document defining how to get involved, how the certificates are collected and made available on-line has been defined and is available in the following formats. Each applying CA must fill in the forms that are included in the policy (see AnnexI and AnnexII).

• TACAR Policy (PDF)

Liability

TERENA takes responsibility for undertaking the identification/authorisation procedures as described in the TACAR policy document, but this is the limit of any responsibility that will be taken by TERENA.

Compliance with the TACAR does not imply that the submitting body has passed any evaluation of its policy, but merely that the root-CA was submitted to TERENA by a bona-fide member of that organisation who identified him or herself to TERENA with a legally-recognised means of personal identification.

TERENA makes no warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the information hosted in the repository.

Certificates in the repository

The collection of certificates started during in November 2003.

To see and download the certificates in the repository click here.

TACAR hosts most of the EuGridPMA root CAs as well as those managed by the National Research and Education Network.

TACAR Mailing list

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