Higher Education Bridge Certificate Authority (HEBCA) Project Progress June 2004 Fed Ed Meeting

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Higher Education Bridge Certificate Authority
(HEBCA) Project ProgressJune 2004 Fed Ed Meeting
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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.

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HEBCA Project

• What will it provide?
• The HEBCA Project will create and maintain three
  new Certificate Authority (CA) systems for
  EDUCAUSE and may also house the existing HEBCA
  Prototype CA
• The three CA systems to be created are
• HEBCA Test CA
• HEBCA Development CA
• HEBCA Production CA
• The HEBCAs will be used to cross-certify Higher
  Education PKI trust anchors to create a bridged
  trust network
• The HEBCA Test CA will also be cross-certified
  with the Prototype FBCA (other emerging Bridge
  CAs are also targets) and the HEBCA production
  CAs will be cross-certified with the production
  FBCA.

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HEBCA Project

• What will it look like?

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HEBCA Project

• Whats 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
• Draft MOA with commercial vendor for
  infrastructure hardware
• Analysis phase underway

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HEBCA Project

• Projected Milestones
• Analysis phase complete by 8/20/04
• Design phase complete by 10/15/04
• CPS complete by 9/3/04
• RPS complete by 9/24/04
• Deployment phase complete by 4/8/05
• Prototype developed and operation by 11/19/04
• HEBCA Development CA operational by 12/24/04
• HEBCA Test CA operational by 1/14/05
• Including cross-certification with FBCA
• Cross-certify Existing HEPKI Participant CAs with
  Test CA by 1/28/05
• HEBCA Production CA operational by 4/08/05
• Including cross-certification with FBCA
• Cross-certify Participant CAs with HEBCA
  Production CA by 5/6/05
• Post Operation Start Activities
• Other Bridge cross-certifications
• Improvements to system
• Improved Test bed for Bridge-aware applications

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For More Information

• HEBCA Website
• http//webteam.educause.edu/hebca/
• Scott Rea - Scott.Rea_at_dartmouth.edu
• Steve Worona - sworona_at_educause.edu