Subject: Announce: Challenge PKI Test Suite 2.0 available

From: "Kenji URUSHIMA" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:23:05 +0900

All,

The 'Challenge PKI Project' will announce 
the release of 'Challenge PKI Test Suite 2.0', an open source
freeware which helps you to test multi-domain
PKI interoperability.

It has following features.

- Multi Domain PKI testing environment using only ONE Linux PC. 
- Open Source Software distributed as BSD lincence. 
- Multiple CA certificate issuance 
- Multiple LDAP repository 
- Test case database for certificate path processing and timestamp testing 
- Easy accessible web browser based interface 
- Flexible certificate and CRL issuance (e.g. any special extensions, 
  distinguish name which contains special characters such like 
  UTF8String of European, Chinese, Korean or Japanese languages) 
- Cooperative test case design environment. 
- Easy to re-build test environment. 
- Cross certification with CA products. 
- OCSP Responder and Japanese GPKI CVS(Certificate Validation Server) 
  Simulator 
- RFC 3161 Timestamp request and response generator. 

* DOWNLOAD

  http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/ts/cpkits-2.0.2-21.i386.rpm  RedHat RPM
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/ts/cpkits-2.0.2-21.src.rpm   RedHat SRPM
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/ts/cpkits-2.0.2-21.tar.gz    Tar Archive
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/ts/cpki_testcase_jgpki2_20040709.tar.gz
      Japanese Government PKI Testcase
    Other test cases will be provided near in future.

  Online document can be found at the following URLs.

  Challenge PKI Project
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/
  Challenge PKI Test Suite 2.0 Document
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/ts/
  Japanese Government PKI Test Case
    http://www.jnsa.org/mpki/ts/testcase_jgpki2/

* SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  Intel(R) Pentium(R) compatible processor 300MHz or above 
  RedHat 7.3 or later 
  64MB RAM or above 
  200MB of available hard-disk space 
  NIC 

  We recommend RedHat 7.3 or later for the operating system but
  it's easy to port other operating systems.
  We have already tested on Solaris and FreeBSD.

* CHALLENGE PKI PROJECT

The 'Challenge PKI Project' is established as one of activities
in the NPO Japan Network Security Association (JNSA).
Our goal is ensure PKI interoperability and contribute actively to
development and spread of reliable PKI applications in future 
electronic society.

* CONTACT

  Feel free to mail 'mpki at jnsa.org' 
  if you have any questions, comments or contributions of 
  source code or documents.

Enjoy.

-- Kenji URUSHIMA (Challenge PKI Project, SECOM Co., Ltd.)