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 information on using certificates on the TeraGrid, please see:

• Access to TeraGrid: Overview

To login using your home institution's login page, please visit:

• https://go.teragrid.org/

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

The NCSA CA is operated by:

National Center for Supercomputing Applications
1205 West Clark Street, Urbana IL 61801 USA

For University of Illinois (Thawte) SSL certificates, please see:

• https://wiki.cites.uiuc.edu/wiki/x/Sz4

The NCSA CA Certificates are available below and also from:

• TeraGrid Approved CAs
• VDT CAs
• IGTF Distribution
• TERNA Academic CA Repository

NCSA currently operates the following Certificate Authorities:

• C=US, O=National Center for Supercomputing Applications, OU=Certificate Authorities, CN=CACL
  • Certificate Policy
  • CA Certificate: PEM DER
  • Signing Policy
  • CRL: PEM DER
  • Validity: Apr 24 2007 to Apr 22 2012
  • This CA is a Member Integrated Credential Service (MICS) accredited by The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority (TAGPMA), a member of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF).
  • 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: PEM DER
  • Signing Policy
  • CRL: PEM DER
  • Validity: Apr 24 2007 to Apr 22 2012
  • This CA is a Short Lived Credential Service (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, OU=Certificate Authorities, CN=GridShib CA
  • Certificate Policy
  • CA Certificate: PEM DER
  • Signing Policy
  • CRL: PEM DER
  • example user certificate
  • Validity: Mar 12 2009 to Mar 11 2014
  • This CA is a Short Lived Credential Service (SLCS) accredited by The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority (TAGPMA), a member of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF).