Re: ipsCA and free .edu certs

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Rob Tanner wrote:
> 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?

We use their certs in our Clean Access setup with little issue. Users
with older browsers may have to input the root cert manually, but that's
not been a problem in the last year. It appears the IPSCA root certs are
known to Safari, at least in my own case...

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