Certificate Service

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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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FAQ on change to maximum validity period for server certificates

Change to Certificate Service – from 1st March 2018

Q1) What is the change in the maximum duration of certificates?

A) The maximum duration will be limited to 2 years, currently this is 3 years.

Q2) What certificates are affected?

A) Only medium assurance Organisation Validated (OV) certificates. High assurance Extended Validation (EV) and Wildcard certificates are already limited to 2 years.

Q3) Who is driving this change?

27/06/18 10.06am