红帽完全开放其安全基础架构软件的源码

红帽公司日前宣布，他们将开源他们的身份管理和安全系统软件的源码，此举是为了证明作为开源的安全管理解决方案，同样也能提供非常好的安全性能。

红帽公司是在本周3公布他们的红帽认证管理系统的全部源码，这套软件是红帽用于用户身份识别以及交易管理的安全基础架构。这套系统来自红帽对AOL的相关产品的收购得到的。但是当时红帽仅仅公开了和Apache网页服务器和红帽目录服务器相关的源码。

红帽同时在该软件源码公布的同时声明，红帽的这些举动是为了证明：开源开发模式下的软件同样能够做的很优秀。红帽不仅仅向其企业级Linux产品用户提供，其公司内部也在使用这些安全基础软件。

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 Whitehurst said 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. Whitehurst took over CEO duties from longtime Red Hat leader Matthew Szulik in January.