Re: ipsCA and free .edu certs

[Rob Whalen <rwhalen () STMARYS-CA EDU>]

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
One downside is that the certs won't work with Novell's eDirectory. I
went to the top guru at Novell. He had tried to get them to work, even
talked to IPSCA programmers, but no workie.
Rob