Sunday, March 06, 2005

Blogging and Certification

From our Coodinator, Prof. Fernando Galindo, I've just received this statement:
"Weblogs are a very useful communication tool. As I understand it, thanks to 'blogs' it's possible to communicate with interested persons and not, with all the included in a distribution list of emails, for example.
As another example, it's possible for LEFIS to communicate the last state of the art on their activities:
i) LEFIS is certificated by the certification authority (in proof) APTICE LEFIS. It is possible to accept this authority using the padlock that is located in the right part of the page, in the top. You can see that we have two pages: https://www.lefis.org/ and http://www.lefis.org/ (or in the right parte of this blog);

ii) The next step will be the use of the certification authority as an entity that can certificate public keys of the LEFIS participants. So, the certification authority will give public keys that let, initially, to access to the LEFIS intranet directly: without the use of username and password

iii) Another step will be the implementation of use rules for the certification authority. These rules will be coherent with the own legal system of each register entity: the different partners of LEFIS that would like to made this function"