UC Irvine is participating in the InCommon Certificate program, which allows delegated administrators in campus departments to issue and renew digital certificates used for such purposes as securing web servers run on behalf of their department. Through the InCommon Certificate program, UC Irvine pays a site fee (sponsored by OIT), and is then entitled to issue unlimited digital certificates through Comodo, a well-established commercial Certificate Authority. More information about this program is available at https://incommon.org/certificates/.
Benefits
Allows campus units to “freely” issue unlimited trusted SSL/TLS certificates for campus services. It will allow us to centralize obtaining certificates in a standardized way, centralize reporting and notifications on when they are expiring, remove the need to generate untrusted self-signed certificates, no longer propagate the insecure mindset of users ignoring certificate warnings in web browsers, and in the long run cut costs that the campus as a whole spends annually on SSL/TLS certificates.
Available Certificate Types
The InCommon Certificate Service makes the following products available for up to a 1-year expiration term:
- Standard SSL/TLS Certificates
- Intranet (private network) Certificates
- Multi-Host SAN (Subject Alternative Name) Certificates
- EV (Extended Validation) Certificates by special request
Resources
- Certificate Service Administrator Responsibilities
- System Administrator FAQ – Tips for installing and using certificates on servers
Campus Contacts
If your department/school is not listed and you want to use the service, have your IT Director contact security@uci.edu to get started.
Department/School | Contact |
Calit2 | Chris Battista |
Campus Recreation | Suzanne Powell |
Claire Trevor School of the Arts | Christopher Wong Jamison E Judd |
Division of Continuing Education | Alvaro Duran Chris Harvie Eugene Chow Toan Chu |
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences | Du Tran Vipada Deleon |
School of Biological Sciences | Eric Sanchez Matthew Martinez |
Henry Samueli School of Engineering | Dan Melzer John Romine |
Humanities Research Institute | Diane Monchusap |
Libraries | Ashley Burke Archana Chaudhri Brandon Emlinger Yasuhiro Shinohara |
Office of Information Technology | Refer to https://uci.atlassian.net/wiki/x/99cNB |
Paul Merage School of Business | Bryan Hua Gary Striano |
School of Education | Hyuk Min Kang Rhett Lowe Spenser Clark |
School of Humanities | Stan Woo-Sam Wylie Visconti |
School of Law | David Ogasawara Patty Furukawa |
School of Medicine | Ron Pulido Joseph (Wu) Fu |
School of Physical Sciences | Nathan Crawford Pyisone Win Tory Graziano |
School of Social Ecology | Jennifer Lane Louis Tran |
School of Social Sciences | Dominic Fiorello Henry Yen Jonathan Nilsson Justin Park |
Strategic Communications | Jim Kreuziger |
Student Government | Aaron Echols |
UCI Health Systems | Gabriel Gracia Thomas Wen |