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I'm a little dismayed at the eleventh hour posting of the email. It makes it feel illegitimate, but I have had other confirmation that it is legit, too. Another thing to worry about before Christmas... Tim McGeary Team Leader, Library Technology Lehigh University 610-758-4998 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] GTalk/Yahoo/Skype: timmcgeary Walker, David wrote: > I see now that I'm looking at the intermediate certificate. The root does expire in 2009. > > Nevermind. :-) > > --Dave > > ================== > David Walker > Library Web Services Manager > California State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > ________________________________________ > From: Walker, David > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:40 PM > To: Code for Libraries > Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] ipsCA Certs > > Hi John, > > I also got this email. We also recently installed an ipsCA wildcard cert for a test EZProxy install. > > Looking at the details of our ipsCA wildcard certificate in Firefox, though, I can see the chain of certificates going up to the root ipsCA cert. > > Firefox says that that root certificate -- ipsCA CLASEA1 Certificate Authority -- is good until 2025. I see the same thing in IE, Safari, and I assume every other browser I might check. > > Do you see that too? > > --Dave > > ================== > David Walker > Library Web Services Manager > California State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Wynstra [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:02 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] ipsCA Certs > > Out of curiosity, did anyone else using ipsCA certs receive notification > that due to the coming expiration of their root CA (December 29,2009), > they would need a reissued cert under a new root CA? > > I am uncertain as to how this new Root CA will become a part of the > browsers trusted roots without some type of user action including a > software upgrade, but the following library website instructions lead me > to believe that this is not going to be smooth. http://bit.ly/53Npel > > We are just about to go live with EZProxy in January with an ipsCA cert > issued a few months ago, and I am not about to do that if I have serious > browser support issue. > > > -- > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > John Wynstra > Library Information Systems Specialist > Rod Library > University of Northern Iowa > Cedar Falls, IA 50613 > [log in to unmask] > (319)273-6399 > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >