VT Personal Certificate Testing Timeline

Date/Milestone

Who

What

Comments

7/7/2010
Focus Group Meeting

Greg Kroll, SETI, other interested participants

Focus group brainstormed about opportunities and obstacles in using soft PDCs

Much of the discussion concerned policies and procedures for certificate acquisition, which will not apply to the Early Adopter phase

10/25/2011
DCSS

Kim; DCSS attendees

Kim announced the availability of test certs for early adopters

The early adopter certs are issued by a development CA and delivered to users via email with a default password.  Thus, no testing of the certificate acquisition/revocation/renewal procedures will occur in this phase.

10/31/2011
Early Adopter meeting

Kim; Office of Export and Secure Research Compliance

Meeting to learn requirements of the Export Security Office

Export Security staff need to digitally sign documents and email with a DoD-approved CA cert.  They would also like a directory of public keys.

11/3/2011
Early Adopter meeting

Kim; Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation staff: Paige Atkins, Bennett Teates, Jon Fulcher

Meeting to explain what early adopter certs can and cannot do and to learn requirements of ARC

ARC also needs to use DoD-approved certificates.  They will have their own Exchange server.  It is not clear if ARC has the proper VT affiliation to obtain production certificates.

12/7/2011
QAV meeting

Kim and Nicole

Meeting to brainstorm web content for Early Adopters

Scholar and VT Google Groups/Docs are being evaluated to see which is the best fit.

12/16/2011
Web site for support content and discussion

Kim

Set up Scholar/VT Google site

 

12/19/2011
Announce support web site

Kim; early adopters

Scholar and/or VT Google site

 

1/30/2012
Gather feedback on email signatures and encryption

Kim; early adopters

via email and web comments

 

1/30/2012
Gather feedback on usability and other concerns

Kim; early adopters

via email and web comments

 

2/6/2012
Summarize Early Adopter findings

Kim; Soft PDC committee

Summarize findings of Early Adopter phase and forward to Soft PDC committee

 

2/10/2012
End Early Adopter Phase

 

 

 

2/10/2012
Preprod testing begins

QA&V

 

Identity proofing procedures and LOA for certs should be described before testing begins.

3/2/2012
Test cert download website

QA&V; SEIS


Test cert acquisition/revocation/renewal website for all supported browsers

 

3/16/2012
Test MyVT

QA&V; IPS; Middleware

Test MyVT for public key suppression functionality

 

3/16/2012
DAT testing complete

QA&V; IMS; Middleware

Test DAT features for personal cert support, especially key recovery.

Will 4Help need a modified DAT view, or just IMS?

3/16/2012
Replication testing complete

QA&V; Middleware; IMS

Test replication from EJBCA to ED

 

3/16/2012
Affiliation enforcement testing complete

QA&V; PMA

Test that certs are issued to properly affiliated persons.

Policy group will need to identify affiliations

3/30/2012
KB articles for email complete

Kim

Email articles

 

3/30/2012
Certificate management KB articles complete.

Kim

Articles for end user certificate management and file encryption

 

3/30/2012
Authentication KB articles complete.

Kim

Articles for authentication

Identify relevant applications

4/3/2012
Review KB articles

Kim, 4Help, KB team

Review documentation and plan for revisions

 

4/17/2012
Preprod testing complete

Kim; handoff to sponsors

 

 
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