Certificate Authority

Computing Services has partnered with a commercial vendor to offer digital certificates to qualified members of the university community.  These certificates (typically used to provide service authentication and protocol encryption for web sites; e.g. HTTPS/SSL/TLS) are provided at no cost to individuals.  The certificates are valid for up to three years and are recognized automatically by most popular browsers.  In addition to the standard SSL certificates used on most web servers, several variations on these certificate are also available; these include Unified Communications certificates, Wildcard certificates, certificates with addition Subject Alternative Names, etc.