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Board of Regents Digital Certificate Program
The Board of Regents (BoR), through the Office of Information and
Instructional Technology, has offered a digital certificate
[defined]
program to
University System of Georgia (USG) institutions for approximately two years,
working with GeoTrust (a root certificate authority). The BoR
GeoTrust certificate
program allows technical contacts at USG institutions to request one-year,
1024-bit standard digital certificates (typically used to encrypt Web traffic)
at a cost of $95 per certificate per server (up to four servers using
the same certificate for redundancy/high availability). At the present
time, multi-year and specialized (wildcard, code-signing, etc.)
certificates are not part of the BoR Certificate Program. The University of
Georgia, through the Office of the CIO and Enterprise Information Technology
Services, has started participating in this program in April 2009.
In order for technical staff in UGA departments to request
digital certificates through the BoR Certificate Program,
they must follow the
BoR Certificate Program Technical Contact Registration Process
(described in next section).
This process includes verification from a departmental
billing contact that the technical contact is authorized
to request digital certificates through this program.
Once a technical contact has been approved by a billing contact,
an account will be created in the BoR Certificate Request System
for that individual. Certificates requested by technical contacts
through the BoR Certificate Request Process (link in next section)
will be
approved by the UGA Certificate Administrator
upon receipt of an email from the departmental
billing contact by the UGA Certificate Administrator
authorizing the payment of the certificate fee.
The certificate will be emailed to the recipient within one
business day from the time the certificate request has been
made (assuming billing authorization is given). If anyone
has questions regarding this program, please email the UGA
Certificate Administrator:
ssladmin@uga.edu.
BoR Certificate Program Technical Contact Registration Process
Follow these steps to register a UGA technical contact for the
BoR GeoTrust certificate program:
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The technical contact needs to fill out
the
BoR Certificate Program Technical Contact Registration Form.
This form
(which requires MyID authentication) needs
contact information (First and Last Name,
E-mail Address and Phone Number) for the
technical and billing contacts as well as
the UGA unit (department, college, etc.) of the billing contact.
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Once the form has been submitted, an email
will be sent to the UGA Certificate
Administrator (UGA CA) indicating that a
technical contact is requesting an account
on the BoR certificate request system.
A second email will be sent to the
billing contact asking that individual to
verify that the technical contact is authorized
to request certificates for their unit by sending
an email to the UGA CA.
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After the UGA CA has received authorization
from the billing contact, an email will be sent to the BoR
Certificate Administrator (BoR CA)
requesting that the account for the technical contact be set up.
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The BoR CA will set up the account for the technical contact via a
phone conversation with that individual.
When the account has been set up in the BoR certificate request
system, the technical contact will be able to request certificates
through the
BoR Certificate Request Process.
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