Certificate Service

Last updated:

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.

Download as PDF

Article

S/MIME Certificates For Digitally Signing Emails

We're pleased to announce that from today the service can provide end user certificates, which are used for digitally signing and encrypting emails. These are called S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) certificates.

S/MIME are installed on email clients which then enable the end user to send digitally signed emails, giving recipients assurances that the email originated from the sender's account. By signing emails, recipients can also have confidence that the contents of the email has been been altered in transit.

13/02/18 2.02pm

Article

Certificate types

The following certificates can be obtained through the Jisc Certificate Service's web app, found in the App Centre here:

The service provides Extended Validation (EV) server certificates S/MIME end user for digitally signing emails for high, both of which offer users the highest possible assurance. Business/Organisation Validated (OV) and Wildcard (of OV type) certificates are also available.

-----

All certificates issued are SHA-256.

-----

24/01/17 2.01pm