Red Hat is fully open to the source code of its security infrastructure software

RedHat announced that it will open source their identity management and security system software source code to prove that it can also provide excellent security performance as an open-source security management solution. Red Hat company announced the full source code of their Red Hat certification management system on March 3 of this week. This software is the security infrastructure of Red Hat for user identification and transaction management. This system was obtained from the acquisition of AOL-related products by RedHat. However, at that time, Red Hat only published the source code related to Apache Web server and Red Hat Directory Server. Red Hat at the same time in the software source

RedHat announced that it will open source their identity management and security system software source code to prove that it can also provide excellent security performance as an open-source security management solution.

Red Hat company announced the full source code of their Red Hat certification management system on March 3 of this week. This software is the security infrastructure of Red Hat for user identification and transaction management. This system was obtained from the acquisition of AOL-related products by RedHat. However, at that time, Red Hat only published the source code related to Apache Web server and Red Hat Directory Server.

At the same time, RedHat announced the software source code. These actions are to prove that the software in the open source development mode can also do very well. RedHat not only provides enterprise-level Linux product users, but also uses these basic security software within the company.

Red Hat has open-sourced its identity-management and security system to promote its assertion that open-source software provides the most secure infrastructure.

The Linux vendor said Wednesday it has released the entire source code for the Red Hat Certificate System, its security framework for managing user identities and transactions on a network. red Hat acquired the system from AOL three years ago, but only parts of the system, which uses the Apache Web server and the Red Hat Directory Server, were open source.

According to a blog post by Red Hat's security team, the move "further demonstrates Red Hat's belief that the open source development model creates more secure software. "In addition to offering the Red Hat Certificate System to users of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux product, the company also uses it internally.

The team said now that the system is open source, it will be easier for developers to integrate the technology with other security-and network management-related projects from Red Hat.

One of those is the freeIPA project, which provides central management of identity, policy, and auditing for Unix and Linux using open-source and open-standards technologies. according to Red Hat, by integrating technology from the certificate system, the freeIPA project eventually will offer central management and provisioning for machine and service digital certificates.

Red Hat is best known for its Linux distribution, but has been working steadily for several years to broaden its open-source portfolio beyond the OS. new CEO Jim whitehustsaid recently that the company, more than ever, needs to demonstrate more support for the open-source community outside of Linux and visibly promote the continued adoption of open-source software among businesses. whitehirst took over CEO duties from longtime Red Hat leader Matthew Szulik in January.