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This page covers digital server certificates.  If you are interested in obtaining a digital certificate for personal use (e.g., encrypting or signing e-mail), please refer to the following URL:

 http://www.utexas.edu/its/help/digital-certificates/830

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Quick Statistics:

As of March 27, 2012, UT Austin has 702 issued Digital Server Certificates and 834 issued Personal Digital Certificates.

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Requesting SSL Certificates for Servers

As December 03, 2010, UT Austin Information Security Office began a partnership with InCommon to start delegating SSL certificate creation to authorized departmental TSCs at no added cost.
Our InCommon license entitles the university to an unlimited number of SSL certificates. Department TSC managers can be provided with a Department Registration Authority Officer (DRAO) account to manage their SSL certificates.

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  • Name of the Department
  • Department Code for the Department (see https://utdirect.utexas.edu/dept if you don’t know it)
  • Name, EID, and e-mail of the requesting TSC Manager

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Requesting SSL Certificates for ITS-managed Domains or Servers

Please note that if you are interested in getting an SSL certificate for a server in the austin.utexas.edu domain or other ITS-managed domains (its, cc, etc.), the procedure is to e-mail the request to security@utexas its-certs@utlists.utexas.edu.[update as

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Requesting Extended Validation (EV) Certificates for Servers

As of March, 2012]The , the ISO successfully worked with UT Legal Affairs and was able to complete the paperwork to obtain Extended Validation (EV) certificates for servers.  More information about EV certs describing what an EV certificate is and when it might be used can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate.

If you already have an InCommon DRAO request setup, you can select the EV cert option during the certificate request process. Image Added

Please note that EV certificates can only have a maximum duration of 2-years (unlike 3-years for regular certificates).
Please also note that InCommon/Comodo requires the Chief Information Security Officer to speak with them via the phone telephone prior to approving any each EV cert certificate request.  As such, the turnaround time could be a bit slower than you are normally used to.

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