NCSA CA Information

This page contains policy and configuration information for NCSA Certificate Authorities. For information on obtaining and using NCSA certificates, please see

• User Info for the NCSA PKI

For questions about the NCSA CA contact security@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

NCSA currently has three Certificate Authorities:

• C=US, O=National Center for Supercomputing Applications, OU=Certificate Authorities, CN=CACL
  • Certificate Policy
  • CA Certificate and Signing Policy
  • CRL
  • Validity: Apr 24 2007 to Apr 22 2012
  • This CA is a Member Integrated Credential Services (MICS) accredited by The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority (TAGPMA), a member of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF).
  • new ncsa-cert-request script
  • example host and user certificates
• C=US, O=National Center for Supercomputing Applications, OU=Certificate Authorities, CN=MyProxy
  • Certificate Policy
  • CA Certificate and Signing Policy
  • Validity: Apr 24 2007 to Apr 22 2012
  • This CA is a Short Lived Credential Services (SLCS) accredited by The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority (TAGPMA), a member of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF).
  • example user certificate
• C=US, O=National Center for Supercomputing Applications, CN=Certification Authority
  • Certificate Policy
  • CA Certificate and Signing Policy
  • CRL
  • Validity: Jun 20 2003 to Jun 18 2009
  • Note: This CA stopped issuing certificates on May 30 2007.