New Auton Lab PKI (public key infrastructure)

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dear Autonians,

I would like to give you heads up. Due to the sheer number of new hires
and incoming interns I was forced to create new PKI (public key
infrastructure) in order to accommodate new desktops and their VPN
connections to the core of the lab. I would also like to use this
opportunity to switch our main firewall/VPN gateways to 10 Gigabit
servers we acquired last year. The infrastructure we currently have in
place was set up by yours truly almost six years ago and it is due to be
rebuild.

Pushing credentials to the desktops and replacing old routing tables on
all computing nodes will inevitably result in some down time for
everyone. I have tested things extensively but I would not be surprised
that and hour or two turn in the whole afternoon of fighting rough
edges.

Unless I hear very good reason not to pull the trigger changes will take
place tomorrow afternoon.

Most Kind Regards,
Predrag Punosevac