Project History

The open standards and protocols are the very foundation of Internet. Despite the fact that digital certificates are widely used in electronic commerce, there was no reference implementation for the certificates related standards. The project of an open source PKI was founded in 1998 by Axetel, in order to develop and support a reference implementation of public key infrastructure. Since April 2002, the European Commission entrusted an industrial consortium made from 15 participants from 5 different countries to work on EuropePKI.