New Certificate Service supplier announcement

I'm pleased to announce that from the 12 May 2015 the Janet Certificate Service will be providing SSL certificates signed by QuoVadis CA.

In the new service, QuoVadis will be providing higher assurance SSL server certificates only, which includes Organisation/Business Validated (OV) and Extended Validation (EV) certificates. We have been busy working with QuoVadis to develop an issuance process (in line with the industry guidelines as specified by the CA/Browser Forum) for the highest assurance EV certificates to enable customers to obtain these in a much better way, resulting in a quick turn around without compromising security and validation. Telephone call-back will not be required in the new service.

At the same time the service will be rebranded to just the Certificate Service, as Janet continues its integration with the Jisc group. Customers willl automatically transition to the new service without the need to sign up again, with all other things unaffected.

The service will after nearly 6 years switch from the incumbent supplier Comodo to QuoVadis. We'd like to thank Comodo for supporting the service and providing certificates to the UK research and education community.

A press release has been posted on the Jisc website here

As we get closer to the official launch date further information will be posted on here and on customers' Certificate Service accounts.