COMMERCIAL Linux distributor Red Hat says it has released all of the source code to the Red Hat Certificate System, its security framework for managing network user identities and transactions.

Until now the only parts of the system freely available as open source code were Apache web server, Red Hat Directory Server and FIPS140-2 level 2 validated NSS cryptographic libraries.

Red Hat bought the Netscape server code from Time Warner's AOL unit in October 2004 for $US23.5 million ($25.6 million) and relaunched it as the Red Hat Certificate System.

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