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...

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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
> 
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> 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.
> 
> 
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> Rod Library
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