Certificate Service

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3 days 18 hours ago

Group Manager

Andrew Simpson

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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SHA-256 service announcement

Availability of SHA-256 certificates: 14 October 2014
We’re pleased to announce an agreement has been reached between TERENA and Comodo which will enable customers to obtain SHA-256 certificates. This is available with immediate effect and all certificates obtained from the service will be by default SHA-256.

30/03/15 1.03pm

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SHA-1 and Google Chrome

SHA-1 and Google Chrome: 20 November 2014

On 18 November Google released Chrome 39 which will now result in users visiting web services secured with SHA-1 certificates that expire in 2017 being shown a grey padlock with a yellow warning triangle, instead of the usual recognisable green padlock.

20/11/14 4.11pm