On 26 May 2013 09:53, Mechtilde <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Andrea,
>
> Am 26.05.2013 00:07, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
> > janI wrote:
> >> in all fairness jsc and rob have worked with this for over a
> >> year, so it would be more fair to have them do it, and I do not want to
> >> come "in between".
> >
> > This is a good summary written by Juergen:
> > http://wiki.apache.org/general/ASFCodeSigning
> >
> > Note that at FOSDEM we were (inconclusively) discussing with Cacert an
> > SSL certificate (to be used for serving HTTPS traffic), not a
> > code-signing certificate (to be used for signing released files).
>
> This can be done with the same Certificat.
>

Technically it could be the same certificate but SSL certificates are
handled by infra, and codesigning might be (still a discussion) be handled
by the projects, making it impractical and less secure to have a single
certificate.

Work on the SSL certificate is ongoing. Code signing certificate seems to
be a longer discussion, where the technical part is the least of the
discussion.

rgds
jan I.

>
> Kind regards
>
> Mechtilde
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Andrea.
> >
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