The University can aquire certificates from Globalsign via UKERNA free of charge. These certificates will be trusted by browsers without the need to install the University root certificate. This will benefit any external facing services (as well as internal) which require a certificate to operate, excluding commercial transactions. Certificates allowing commercial transactions can be bought via UKERNA for approximately £90.

To get a certificate you must create a Certificate Signing Request and send it to scs@gla.ac.uk.

When creating a Certificate Signing Request you must use the following values.

Country Code :  GB
State : Scotland
Locality : Glasgow
Organisation :  University of Glasgow
Organisational Unit :  Enter your Faculty/Department
Common Name : Must match the host name part of the URL that is typed into the browser (e.g. www.dept.gla.ac.uk)

All others leave blank i.e. Email

We also need to know what type of system the certificate is for i.e. IIS5, Apache-modSSL, etc