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   4
   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 powerful features
  14   necessary for professional environments that are usually
  15   only found in commercial grade PKI products.<br/>
  16   However, we also target
  17   small scale installations by providing quick-start configuration examples
  18   that allow to get a usable PKI running quickly.
  19 </p>
  20 <p>
  21
  22 </p>
  23
  24 <dl>
  25 <dt>Architecture White Paper available</dt>
  26 <dd>The OpenXPKI Team has compiled a White Paper on the architecture
  27   and key features of the OpenXPKI software. The paper is
  28   <a href="docs/OpenXPKI-Architecture-Overview.pdf">available
  29     as a PDF Document here</a> and outlines the architecture of the
  30   system. Development follows the concepts described there closely.
  31 </dd>
  32 </dl>
  33
  34 <h2>The project</h2>
  35 <p>
  36   The development infrastructure is hosted at SourceForge.net
  37   <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  38            host => 'sf.net',
  39            path => '/projects/openxpki/' &>">
  40     http://sf.net/projects/openxpki/</a> - you will find
  41   mailing lists, repository, bug tracker, etc. there.
  42 </p>
  43 <h2>History</h2>
  44 <p>
  45   OpenXPKI originally started as a fork of OpenCA in October 2005 driven
  46   by the former OpenCA developers, but quickly turned out to be a complete
  47   redesign.
  48 </p>
  49 <p>
  50   This web site still contains references to the original OpenCA
  51   software and - as we continue to maintain the current 0.9.2 branch
  52   regarding security fixes - this may not change in the near future.
  53 </p>
  54 <p>
  55 Historically OpenCA was hosted on a web site
  56               <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  57                        host => 'www.openca.org',
  58                        path => '/' &>">
  59               www.openca.org</a>.<br/>
  60 Later, a new web site
  61               <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  62                        host => 'www.openca.info',
  63                        path => '/' &>">
  64               www.openca.info</a>
  65 was established. Today, it is just a link to the site which you are reading.
  66 We are providing limited legacy support for the OpenCA project
  67 (see <a href="<& /lib/url.mas,
  68           path => '/legacy/index.html' &>">OpenCA Legacy Support</a> section).
  69 </p>
  70