AusCERT Certificate Services (AusCERT-CS) powered by Comodo offers Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea education and research organisations certificates for a wide variety of uses including web servers (SSL), software (code signing) and people (S/MIME).

Certificate Service

AusCERT Certificate Service offers educational and research organisations certificates on a per annum basis at competitive rates. For further details see the Price Schedule. Subscription level is based on organisation size, with every level of subscription in the Certificate Service granted the provision of all types of PKI certificates listed below. Certificate policies for certificates included in the service are detailed in Appendix D of AusCERT CS Certification Practice Statement and Certificate Policy.

Types of certificates available

Three types of certificates are supported:

• Server Certificates - for authenticating servers and establishing secure sessions with end clients. These include: Single Server Organisation Validated (OV) SSL Certificates, Single Server OV Wildcard SSL Certificates, SGC SSL Certificates, SGC Wildcard Certificates, SAN certificates, MDC SSL Certificates (up to 100 domains) and UC SSL Certificates (up to 100 domains). Note that these SSL certificates can only be used for non-financial transactions.
• Personal Certificates - for identifying individual users, secure e-mail communications and for authentication to applications. Two identification levels are available. Standard indicates the individual is a member of the organisation. High indicates the individual has passed a 100 point identity check.
• Code-signing Certificates - for authenticating software distributed over the Internet.

EV SSL Server Certificates

EV SSL Server Certificates are available through the Certificate Service Manager but are provided under a separate agreement with Comodo and attract a separate fee.

Ordering certificates

Subscribers to the AusCERT Certificate Service are provided access to the Certificate Service Manager (CSM), from which all activities of certificate management are conducted.

Support

Please review all available support options before requesting email or telephone support. These include:

• Domain ownership verification
• Certificate Service Manager (CSM) support
• Product and System Support
• FAQs
• AusCERT CS Repository

Certificate Service News

Further Information

FAQ - Code-signing certificates - (16/08/2012)

FAQ - Certificate Service Manager (CSM) - (13/08/2012)

FAQ - EV SSL Certificates - (13/08/2012)

AusCERT Certificate Services FAQ - This page provides answers to some of the most frequently asked technical questions about AusCERT Certificate Services (10/08/2012)

EV-SSL Certificate application process - The process for obtaining EV-SSL certificates involves a little more work than obtaining ordinary SSL certficates. Read on to make the process as quick and easy as possible. (09/08/2012)

AusCERT Certificate Service Repository - (22/06/2012)

CSM support - (21/06/2012)

Procedure for domain approval - Procedure that AusCERT will follow to verify that the participant organisation is in control of a domain before approval in CSM. (22/12/2011)

AusCERT CS Price Schedule - The new subscription model for the AusCERT Certificate Service increases the accessibility and equity of the service, with unlimited certificates of all types available to subscribers at any level. (06/12/2011)

AusCERT CS EV SSL Pricing - Extended validation SSL certificates are not covered by the AusCERT CS price schedule and attract an additional charge, per certificate. (05/12/2011)

AusCERT CS Certificate Types and Use Cases - It is important to select the right SSL/TLS certificate for your requirements. (30/11/2011)

Attacks on Certificate Authorities and Registration Authorities - (22/11/2011)

Change SSL certificate formats - (02/10/2011)

AusCERT CS Roadshow - rollout of the Certificate Service Manager - (28/09/2011)

SSL certificate issues for servers - This includes issues about how to generate CSRs and installing certificates on various servers. (21/09/2011)

AusCERT CS product and system support - (19/09/2011)

Domain approval and domain control validation - (19/09/2011)

AusCERT Certificate Service - Three types of certificates are supported - SSL, code signing and personal certificates. EV SSL certificates are available for a separate fee. (18/09/2011)

Certificate Service News - (17/09/2011)

AusCERT CS Information Support - (17/09/2011)


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