Important poll for UK schools

[Dantech]

Sorry

It got late. Yes I did mean IIS 7 which comes with Server 2008.

[mpe]

Voted, but schools can have as many free certs as they want from certs.ipsca.com

I find it a bit strange that a company in Spain gives prices in USD (rather than Euros) and quotes their telephone number in a way which could be interpreted as being in India.

Of course if would probably make far more sense for RBCs/NEN to be doing this in the first place. Maybe that is what this poll is about...

[wesleyw]

Currently we have 2 SSL certs but due to a big change over in the summer we are investing in another Wildcard Cert for our ISA box to publish sites.


Wes

[Dantech]

Hi

Just thought I would share my experience using ipsCA.

I waited a while for an e-mail from them before realising it had gone into my junk e-mail folder in Exchange 2003.

I am now at the last stage of waiting for the certificate, but it seems to have gone through OK. No payment needed which is the best thing.

I wish I had set up a webmaster e-mail account before doing the above because they replied to admin@ which is handled by the Head's PA. Fortunately I was able to warn her in time and I got the e-mail. Just something to be aware of.

I did notice there was no way of saying I was using iis 7 though and had to choose iis 6 - just hope this is not a problem.

[swgeek]

DIELLO.. I like your oath!

[Dantech]

Voted, but schools can have as many free certs as they want from certs.ipsca.com

Hi

I have just installed my free certificate from ipsCA but when testing it IE 8 still does not trust it. The engineer at Mouchel says I should dump it and buy one from Verisign but this will cost shed loads. He reckons that MS will not trust ipsCA certs - is this true?

They virtually cancelled my change request over this and I am trying to get our SLG live by September!

[Geoff]

Ok if ipsCA SSL certs aren't good enough. Try Comodo's free SSL cert.

Secure Transactions with our Free SSL Certificate | Comodo

[diggory]

Using one commodo wild card cert to secure, OWA, web-dav and other https services (AV updates) through our apache web server.

However I'm going to need another to do RDP - ho hum...

[matt40k]

Still stupid question, why aren't the LEA's provide this? Surely if you use schoolname.la.sch.uk, they could get a wildcard for la.sch.uk?

[Ric_]

Still stupid question, why aren't the LEA's provide this? Surely if you use schoolname.la.sch.uk, they could get a wildcard for la.sch.uk?

I think it is quite expensive to become a certificate authority and wildcard certificates aren't always appropriate.

Your RBC may have taken JANET up on the use of their certificate authority (CLEO have) so you can have as many free certificates as you like once you have jumped through some hoops.

[matt40k]

wildcard certificates aren't always appropriate

How so?

[Ric_]

Wildcard SSL Certificates - Best SSL Certificates sums it up better than I can.

[matt40k]

Sounds fine to me for schools. Not really good if you need to accept credit cards. Ok revoking SSL licenses would be the only problem, still why would you need to do this in the school environment?

[EduTech]

I just brought a wildcard SSL for our ISA box works a treat now can publish anything over 443 without any problems at all.. just have 2 spare SSL certs i have re-voked now.

[Dantech]

Hi

That sounds too easy to me. The county do not think like us! They provide support but don't seem to provide a lead on issues like this for some reason. It really would seem sensible for the county to provide certificates. I might raise this one with the appropriate person.