UK govt poised to embrace open source for PKI standards

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Author: JT Smith

The Register: “The UK government e-Envoy, he of the Microsoft-only Government portal, seems
to have got religion after all. In what unkind individuals might term one of the great
u-turns of our time, an open source approach to PKI currently looks very close to
being adopted for the second round of PKI interoperability trials, to be conducted by
the UK Communications-Electronics Security Group [CESG] later this year.”