Re: ipsCA and free .edu certs

[Charlie Reitsma <reitsmac () DENISON EDU>]

I've been using their certs for almost 2 years. They require a chain  
certificate  in the server to get past IE without a popup. The Oracle  
guy on campus has indicated problems getting the chain certificate in  
place using the tools Oracle provides to set up the application  
servers. Have you seen this issue?

Quoting Kenneth Arnold <bkarnold () CBU EDU>:

> We are using them for four of our web servers running Oracle  
> Application Server.  We haven't had any problems with users lacking  
> the root certificate in their browsers.  I don't recommend them for  
> imap and pop3 yet
> Br. Kenneth Arnold
> Christian Brothers University.
>
> Rob Tanner wrote:
> > 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