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Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011130134951.03836a38@hesiod> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:15:29 -0500 To: itpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU> Cc: ie-cert@mit.edu, infosys@mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Date: Friday, 30 November 2001 To: MIT Community and Web Site Managers: itpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu, et al. From: IE Certificate Acquisition Delivery Team <ie-cert@mit.edu> Subject: Obtain an MIT Personal Certificate with Internet Explorer on Windows Cc: infosys@mit.edu, ie-cert@mit.edu -------- Good Afternoon, We are pleased to announce that acquiring and using personal certificates with Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 on Windows is now supported. This effort was in response to requests from the MIT community to make using certificate protected sites possible from IE. Currently, the ability to obtain personal certificates is limited to the Windows platform. This is because Microsoft has not added personal certificate support for IE on the Macintosh, and the required version (IE 5.5 with SP 2) in not available for UNIX. For these reasons, we continue to recommend Netscape as the preferred browser for use with personal certificates. Known Issue ----------------------------------------------------- One SAPweb requisition, specific to the Department of Facilities, does not work with IE. All other SAPweb and ECAT partner requisitions worked fine in testing. Details ----------------------------------------------------- Certificate acquisition is enabled for IE version 5.5 and higher. We strongly recommend that you upgrade to IE 5.5 SP2 to fix a number of security holes in earlier implementations of IE. We do not recommend IE 6 at this time, though you can acquire and use MIT personal certificates with it. Certificate acquisition has been enabled for several weeks now as we have been finalizing our testing effort. Getting IE, Certificates & Help ----------------------------------------------------- To obtain IE 5.5 SP2, visit Microsoft's site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ Documentation is available at: - Instructions for getting certificates: http://web.mit.edu/is/help/cert/ - Specific instructions for IE: http://web.mit.edu/is/help/ie/ - IE instructions with screen shots: http://web.mit.edu/is/help/ie/ie_certificates.html If you need assistance or have questions about acquiring certificates, contact the Business Liaison Team at: - e-mail: business-help@mit.edu - web: http://web.mit.edu/is/blt - phone: x2-1177 Enjoy! Jonathan Hunt IE Certificate Acquisition Delivery Project Leader
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