In November 2011 the EJBCA project celebrates its 10th anniversary. I am very proud of what we have achieved during these past years: EJBCA is widely used in critical security infrastructures in banks, countries and enterprises all around the world; with more than 13.000 source repository commits; almost 500.000 lines of code; and close to 140.000 downloads... a unique open source PKI infrastructure software, EJBCA can only be viewed as a great success!
It is mainly due to the Community, that EJBCA PKI is now such a vast success, says Tomas Gustavsson.
The EJBCA project was registered on SourceForge on 9 September 2001. Rather shortly followed by the first public release, EJBCA v1.0, on 5 December 2001. Compared to contemporary EJBCA, version 1.0 was rather limited: developed by a single person alone, accessible solely through a command line interface, EJBCA 1.0 did not support more than one CA per installation. It was a meager 1.4 MB compared to todays hefty 42MB download.
With two more developers on board during 2002-03, the feature set increased quickly, allowing PrimeKey to release EJBCA v2.0 barely two years after the initial release. Version 2.0 featured a web based administration GUI, several standard PKI protocols and many other important improvements.
The rest is history, bringing us up to the current EJBCA v4.0 — based on the latest JEE technology; implementing all common PKI protocols and WebServices; fulfilling virtually any enterprise PKI need.
On behalf of PrimeKey, I would like to thank all users and supporters of the EJBCA project. During the last 10 years you have pushed and enabled us to break new limits within open source PKI. With your continued support we will face new challenges and break new boundaries during the coming years, starting off making EJBCA become the first Common Criteria certified open source PKI.
Keep up the good work, folks!
Tomas Gustavsson, PrimeKey CTO
"With continued support from the EJBCA community, PrimeKey will face new challenges and break new boundaries during the coming years, starting off making EJBCA become the first Common Criteria certified open source PKI."
Tomas Gustavsson, PrimeKey CTO.
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