Red Hat Open-Sources Security Framework | Linux Today

Red Hat Open-Sources Security Framework

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 20, 2008

“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…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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