Certificate Service

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Welcome to the Jisc Certificate Service group. For an update on the NEW Jisc certificate service please follow the below link. The New Jisc Certiface Service The service offers a number of different X509 SSL certificates, including Extended Validation certificates that give users the highest possible assurance, as well as S/MIME email certificates for digitally signing emails. Jisc has an agreement with the Certificate Authority, QuoVadis who is the provider of the certificates. The service has been running since 2006 and has issued many thousands of certificates to organisations in UK research and education. This is a Community group where users can obtain relevant information, receive service updates and provide feedback.

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OU Field Update

Andrew Simpson

11 August 2020 at 9:39am

Please see further update from QuoVadis on the OU field Issue:

Retiring the OU field for public TLS/SSL

QuoVadis will turn off the Organizational Unit (OU) field for all new public TLS/SSL certificates starting on August 31, 2020 at 00:59. This will affect new, reissued, and renewed certificates. Existing certificates with OUs are not affected (and do not require revocation or replacement).

The OU field is an optional field used to enter metadata in a certificate. Typically, customers use this field to indicate a department, service, or location such as “Dev Ops Team” or “Fortinet Firewall 002.” However, this field has standards limitations and cannot contain trademarks and other types of information. Industry-wide there have been issues with non-compliant information in the OU field; we and other CAs are taking proactive steps to resolve the issue.

If you have any questions please emails certificates@jisc.ac.uk