Certificate Service Official Documents

The following documents describe the operational practices and general terms and conditions for using the InCommon Certificate Service. The InCommon Collaborate wiki includes links to technical documents and service endpoints for each of the certificate types issued by the InCommon Certificate Service.

Policy Documents

Addendum to the InCommon Federation Participation Agreement
InCommon Certificate Subscription Terms [DOC]
This is the legal document used to subscribe to the certificate service. It defines the contractual relationship between the InCommon Certificate Service and InCommon participants.
3 January 2012
If you are a member of PASSHE, please use this document [DOC] specific to your organization. Also download the purchase order terms and conditions [DOC]
InCommon Participation Agreement [PDF]
This is the legal agreement used to join InCommon.
InCommon Certificate Service Policy Authority [PDF]
Version 1.0, 24 June 2010
InCommon Certificate Service Relying Party Agreement [PDF]
Version 1.0, 24 June 2010

Certificate Manager

Certificate Manager (CM) Administrator Guide with Domain Control Validation [PDF], 27 February 2013
- Domain Control Validation (DCV) Supplement [PDF], 27 February 2013
- Table of Changes in the CM from v 2.11 to 1 March 2013 (v. 4.0) version.
- CM Administrator Guide DIFF between 27 January 2012 (v 2.8.24) and 1 March 2013 (v. 4.0)
Old Version - Certificate Manager (CM) Administrator Guide [PDF], 27 January 2012

SSL Certificate Documents

Certification Practices Statement (CPS) for SSL Certificates [PDF]
Version 1.0, 16 August 2010
Extended Validation (EV) Certificate Subscriber Addendum (required before using EV certs - agreement is directly with Comodo) 1 March 2011
Generating Certificate Signing Requests for Various Servers
SSL Certificate Profile [DOC]
24 January 2011
Intermediate CA Bundle for Organizational Validation (OV) SSL/TSL Certificates

Client Certificate Documents

Certification Practices Statement (CPS) for Client Certificates [PDF]
Version 1.0, 14 February 2011
DIFF for Client Certificate CPS (showing the difference between the Client certificate CPS (dated 14 February 2011) and the original SSL certificate CPS (dated 16 August 2010) [PDF]
End User Guide for Client Certificates (how to enroll for and download client certificates) [PDF]
Software Version 2.8.21, 10 March 2011
Standard Client Certificate Profile [DOC]
24 January 2011

Code Signing Documents

Certification Practices Statement (CPS) for Code Signing Certificates [PDF]
Version 1.0, 7 June 2011
DIFF for Code Signing Certificate CPS [PDF] (showing the different between the Code Signing CPS (dated 7 June 2011) and the original SSL certificate CPS (dated 16 August 2010)

API Documents

Certificate Manager (CM) SMIME Enroll API [PDF]
API administrative guide for requesting, collecting, revoking client certificates),
Software Version 2.8.23, 23 June 2011
Certificate Manager (CM) SSL Web Services API [PDF]
API administrative guide to renewing and collecting renewed SSL, and requesting, collecting revoking SSL)
Software Version 2.8.23, 23 June 2011

Root Cert for InCommon test CA (for testing purposes only)

InCommon Object Identifiers (OIDs)

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