Red Hat releases its Certificate System into the open

Red Hat gets a lot of credit for being a pureplay open-source company, and rightly so. It's therefore interesting to see the company releasing code that most probably a) didn't know existed and b) didn't know was proprietary.

But so it is with the Red Hat Certificate System, which Red Hat acquired from AOL a few years back, and which Red Hat has now released under an open-source license (actually, it is released under several, given the different components in the Certificate System). RHCS, now dubbed "Dogtag," plays a useful role in securing systems.