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   5 <h2>About OpenXPKI</h2>
   6 <p>
   7   The OpenXPKI Project aims at creating an enterprise-grade
   8   PKI/Trustcenter software supporting well established infrastructure
   9   components like RDBMS and Hardware Security Modules. Flexibility and
  10   modularity are the project's key design objectives.
  11 </p>
  12 <p>
  13   Unlike many other OpenSource PKI projects OpenXPKI offers
  14   <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  15          path => '/features/index.html' &>">powerful features</a>
  16   necessary for professional environments that are usually
  17   only found in commercial grade PKI products. (If you have ever wondered
  18   what could be done to provide <b>continuous operation</b> of a PKI without
  19   having to struggle with the system every time your CA certificate expires,
  20   OpenXPKI is probably the right thing for you.)
  21 </p>
  22 <p>
  23   However, we also target small scale installations by providing
  24   quick-start configuration examples that allow to get a usable PKI
  25   running quickly.
  26 </p>
  27 <p>
  28   OpenXPKI runs on most Unix-like operating system (verified on
  29   FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris/OpenSolaris and Mac OS X).<br/>
  30   Database backends exist for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and DB2.<br>
  31   OpenXPKI also integrates with the
  32   <a href="http://bestpractical.com/rt/">RT Request Tracker</a> and
  33   supports nCipher's nShield Hardware Security Modules.
  34 </p>
  35
  36 <dl>
  37 <dt>Architecture White Paper available</dt>
  38 <dd>The OpenXPKI Team has compiled a White Paper on the architecture
  39   and key features of the OpenXPKI software. The paper is
  40   <a href="docs/OpenXPKI-Architecture-Overview.pdf">available
  41     as a PDF Document here</a> and outlines the architecture of the
  42   system. Development follows the concepts described there closely.
  43 </dd>
  44 </dl>
  45
  46 <h2>News</h2>
  47 <p>Currently there is no stable release of OpenXPKI yet, but as of November
  48   2008 the code is basically feature-complete. We are currently preparing
  49   the 1.0 release which is mostly a documentation issue.
  50 </p>
  51 <p>
  52   There are, however, already existing production deployments for OpenXPKI,
  53   the oldest one known to us has been in production since February 2007
  54   without any major problems.
  55 </p>
  56
  57 <p>
  58   Check out our
  59   <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  60            path => '/news/index.html' &>">News Section</a> where you can find
  61   a chronological list of announcements and events.
  62 </p>
  63
  64 <h2>Project resources</h2>
  65 <p>
  66   The development infrastructure is hosted at SourceForge.net
  67   <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  68            host => 'sf.net',
  69            path => '/projects/openxpki/' &>">
  70     http://sf.net/projects/openxpki/</a> - you will find
  71   mailing lists, repository, bug tracker, etc. there.
  72   Refer to the <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  73          path => '/resources/index.html' &>">Resources Section</a> for
  74   more information.
  75 </p>
  76
  77 <h2>History</h2>
  78 <p>
  79   OpenXPKI originally started as a fork of OpenCA in October 2005 driven
  80   by the former OpenCA developers, but quickly turned out to be a complete
  81   redesign and rewite.
  82 </p>