Hi,

in my role as unpaid tech advisor for our local library, may I ask a
question about the ipsCA issue?

Is my understanding correct that ipsCA currently reissues certificates [1]
signed with a root CA that is not yet in Mozilla products, due to IPS's
delaying the necessary vetting process [2]? In other words, Mozilla users
would see security warnings even if a reissued certificate was used?

The reason I'm confused is that I, like David, saw a number of still valid
certificates from "IPS Internet publishing Services s.l." already shipping
with Firefox, alongside the now-expired certificate. But I suppose those
certificates are for something else and the reissued certificates won't be
signed using them?

Thanks,

 - Godmar

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529286
[1] http://certs.ipsca.com/Support/hierarchy-ipsca.asp

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, John Wynstra <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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