Re: ipsCA and free .edu certs

["Winders, Timothy A" <twinders () SOUTHPLAINSCOLLEGE EDU>]

We have been using the ipsCA free cert at South Plains College for a
while.  I have two *.southplainscollege.edu certificates, one generated
for Linux based hosts and one generated for Windows hosts.  I have no
problems with them.

Tim Winders | Associate Dean of Information Technology | South Plains
College


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Tanner [mailto:rtanner () LINFIELD EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:21 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] ipsCA and free .edu certs
>
> Hi folks,
>
> It was recently brought to my attention that ipsCA offers free 2 year
> 256 bit SSL certificates for educational institutions (in the .edu
> domain).  Does anybody have any experience with them?  I note that
> their
> root cert is bundled into Firefox, but does anyone know  about IE or
> Safari?  Is there a limit to the number of certificates?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
> --
> Rob Tanner
> UNIX Services Manager
> Linfield College, McMinnville OR