"Red Hat has open-sourced its identity-management and security system to promote its assertion that open-source software provides the most secure infrastructure.
"The Linux vendor said Wednesday it has released the entire source code for the Red Hat Certificate System, its security framework for managing user identities and transactions on a network. Red Hat acquired the system from AOL three years ago, but only parts of the system, which uses the Apache Web server and the Red Hat Directory Server, were open source..."
