Dear Valued CAcert Member, CAcert has implemented a policy for certifying assurers, which was announced on 30th of May 2008. Since the implementation of the CAcert Assurer Challenge Test System (CATS) last year more than 1600 Assurers have taken and passed the challenge and are now official CAcert Assurers, fully compliant with the CAcert Assurance Policy. This email is being sent to those of you who have been active in performing assurances in the past year, but who have not taken and passed the Assurer Challenge Test yet. It is no longer permissible for anyone to assure for CAcert who has not passed the CATS. Please visit the CAcert Wiki documentation pages for the Assurer-Challenge and follow the instructions. Make sure you have installed your CAcert client certificate into your browser as this system only allows you to login with a client certificate. The Assurers Handbook will provide you with more detailed information about CAcert Assurances and how to make those assurances successful. Why is CAcert doing all this? CAcert has been and still is undergoing many changes since early 2008. CAcert has become a Community with policies in place to issue secure, free and highly qualified signed certificates. CAcert has become a recognized and accepted Certificate Authority on the internet. To maintain this status CAcert will be audited, and the audit must validate that assurers have an understanding of the CAcert policies and the assurance process. A successful audit has the potential for our new CAcert Root Key to be included into the Mozilla CA list this year. It is our hope that all our assurers will complete the CATS, the audit will be successful and CAcert will be featured on Mozilla. You have been involved with CAcert and have helped to increase the assured member community we have today. Your contribution is greatly appreciated because CAcert success and acceptance depends on you. We will be very happy to give you any support you may need to complete this process, so please let us know if you have any questions (support@cacert.org). Thank you, CAcert Inc. Committee Teus Hagen President