About OpenXPKI

The OpenXPKI Project aims at creating an enterprise-grade PKI/Trustcenter software supporting well established infrastructure components like RDBMS and Hardware Security Modules. Flexibility and modularity are the project's key design objectives.

Unlike many other OpenSource PKI projects OpenXPKI offers powerful features necessary for professional environments that are usually only found in commercial grade PKI products.
However, we also target small scale installations by providing quick-start configuration examples that allow to get a usable PKI running quickly.

Architecture White Paper available

The OpenXPKI Team has compiled a White Paper on the architecture and key features of the OpenXPKI software. The paper is available as a PDF Document here and outlines the architecture of the system. Development follows the concepts described there closely.

The project

The development infrastructure is hosted at SourceForge.net http://sf.net/projects/openxpki/ - you will find mailing lists, repository, bug tracker, etc. there.

History

OpenXPKI originally started as a fork of OpenCA in October 2005 driven by the former OpenCA developers, but quickly turned out to be a complete redesign.

This web site still contains references to the original OpenCA software and - as we continue to maintain the current 0.9.2 branch regarding security fixes - this may not change in the near future.

Historically OpenCA was hosted on a web site www.openca.org.
Later, a new web site www.openca.info was established. Today, it is just a link to the site which you are reading. We are providing limited legacy support for the OpenCA project (see OpenCA Legacy Support section).