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This article reads as a specification of a technical product intended for advertisement for professionals. This software is not notable, as far as I see. Article has only 2 references, both from the project's site; in "further reading" only the first source actually covers EJBCA in detail, most other don't even mention it.
Anton.bersh (
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14:31, 14 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Please note:
1. The article was created by
Special:Contributions/ZeiZai6Y with the explicit intent of promoting this software. He wrote "Just announced to the community that it exists" on
Talk:EJBCA.
3. The article did not have any reliable third-party sources since its creation (which lead me to believe EJBCA was never notable, not just a victim of link rot).
Comment Hi - I'm the Product Owner of said product, and I was alerted about this article's nomination for deletion by a member of our user community. We have generally chosen to not edit this article ourselves precisely to avoid any accusations of advertising, that said I believe that the product is notable within the PKI sphere and worth keeping. To wit:
If it would be considered acceptable, we would be happy to improve the quality of the article according to the points stated and with the goal of making it informative for the public.
I proposed deltion of the article because it appeared to be neglected since circa 2016. Since this is no longer the case, I withdrew deletion nomination.
1 and 2. Great that you found more siurces, we can try to incorporate them into the article.
3. Each article is evaluated separately on its own merit, as far as I know. If you think
OpenCA and
DogTag are not notable, you are welcome to propose their deletion.
Comment I edited this page several times, and have contributed to several other pages on wikipedia. Disclosure, I am employed by the company that is the main (but not sole) contributor to the open source project.
"in "further reading" only the first source actually covers EJBCA in detail, most other don't even mention it".
How was this conclusion was reached?
1 The forth reference "Secret sharing..." have a chapter discussing "Implementing certificate extensions on PKI software" which gives technical details about doing this in EJBCA.
2 The fifth reference "Building and managing..." from the SANS institute have a whole chapter about EJBCA, "3.3 Open source Certificate Authority".
3 The book references mention EJBCA, but you have to get the books to read it.
I withdraw deletipn proposal because there is clearly some interest in improving this article and I want to give it a chance. I'd gladly work with
User:Shellwood and
User:EpicPupper if they are willing to put in the time and propose improvements on
Talk:EJBCA. Please note:
Talk:EJBCA mentions that this article has had these issues since 2016, hopefully we'll finally fix it.
Anton.bersh (
talk)
11:56, 17 April 2021 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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