Higher Education Bridge Certificate Authority HEBCA Project Progress

Higher Education Bridge Certificate Authority (HEBCA) Project Progress Sixth Annual PKI Summit at Snowmass, Colorado August 2004

HEBCA Project • What is it? – The HEBCA Project being undertaken by Dartmouth College includes all activities related to the instantiation and operation of a production-level Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Bridge Certificate Authority for the Higher Education community. – The project also includes the set up and facilitation of a test bed for development of bridge aware application software. 2

HEBCA Project • What will it provide? – Create and maintain three new bridge Certificate Authority (CA) systems for EDUCAUSE: • HEBCA Test CA • HEBCA Development CA • HEBCA Production CA – Use HEBCA to cross-certify Higher Education PKI trust anchors to create a bridged trust network – Cross-certify HEBCA with FBCA (and likely other emerging bridge CAs) 3

HEBCA Project • What will it look like? 4

HEBCA Project • What’s been done so far? – Prototype HEBCA operational and cross-certified with the Prototype FBCA – Draft of Production HEBCA CP produced – Draft of Production HEBCA CPS started – Operational Authority Contractor engaged – Preliminary Project Schedule produced – Draft MOA with commercial vendor for CA software and licenses – Sun Microsystems donation of infrastructure hardware – Analysis phase underway 5

HEBCA Project • Projected Milestones – Prototype ready for EDUCAUSE National demo – Test HEBCA cross signed with FBCA 3/05 – Production HEBCA cross signed with FBCA 6/05 These milestones (especially the last two) are dependent on many factors and may change. 6

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For More Information • HEBCA Website: http: //webteam. educause. edu/hebca/ Scott Rea - Scott. Rea@dartmouth. edu Steve Worona - sworona@educause. edu 8