Re: ipCSA (was Re: UCC or Wildcard question)

[Rob Thompson <ab5602@wayne.edu>]

Not to worry anyone more about IPSCA, but for the past 6 months, we have not been able to order the free .edu certs from them.  Their server now consistently fails for us with the a non-descriptive error of "error", when trying to validate it.  I'm wondering if we reached some sort of "quota", or maybe they decided that they don't like us anymore.  We obviously have no room to complain given the price =), and it was nice while it lasted.

Instead, we are looking into the "Wildcard Plus" cert from DigiCert (http://www.digicert.com/).  They offer a wildcard cert with an unlimited server license, and free re-issuing of the cert with updated SAN names as you see fit.

-Rob

-- 
Rob Thompson, Systems Analyst 
Enterprise Applications 
Computing & Information Technology 
Wayne State University 
313-577-5645 

Public Key: http://pgp.wayne.edu/rob.key 

----- "David N.Blank-Edelman" <dnb@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> On Aug 10, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Patrick Landry wrote:
> 
> > We use a wildcard cert from ipsCA (http://certs.ipsca.com/). Their 
> 
> > offer
> > for 2 year .edu certs for free is good even for wildcard certs.
> 
> Just to follow up on Rich's note about the ipsCA root cert expiring in
>  
> December. I contacted their support and they responded with (and I  
> quote):
> 
> > "Don't worry about this. We have recently go through the Microsoft 
> 
> > audit and we are now stablishing the migration plan for our new CA. 
> 
> > We will inform you as soon as we have everything set. In any case, 
> 
> > thank you for your notice."
> 
> 
> I won't comment on whether you should worry or not.
> 
>       -- dNb