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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Good morning:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14pt; ">As happens each year around this time, MIT's personal web certificates will soon require renewal. Certificates obtained in the past year are set to expire on July 31, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14pt; ">Renewal of personal web certificates is not automatic. To ensure continued access to MIT's secure web applications, such as Benefits, SAPweb, WebSIS, COEUS Lite, and ePaystubs, plan to renew
in the coming weeks. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14px; ">Note too that if you use certificates in more than one web browser or on more than one machine, you will need to get a new certificate for each browser on each machine. It is important that the versions of the
browsers you use are current with the operating system and that all critical browser patches are current.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Getting and Installing Certificates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">You can acquire new personal certificates via the Get an MIT Certificate page at<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><a href="https://ca.mit.edu/">https://ca.mit.edu/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">If you go to this page from</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">• a Macintosh running Safari under OS X 10.7 or 10.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">• a PC running Internet Explorer under Windows 7, Vista or XP</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">you will be offered the option to download CertAid. This application manages the entire certificate setup procedure for browsers, giving users a more reliable installation experience.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Alternatively, you can install certificates manually. For instructions, see the MIT Certificates Guide at</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 19, 255); "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates/guide">http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates/guide</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Deleting Expired Certificates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">If, after installing your new certificate, you experience problems accessing certificate-protected sites, you may want to try deleting your expired certificates,
as documented at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/certificates/delete">http://ist.mit.edu/certificates/delete</a> <span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">Do not delete an expired certificate if you have used it to sign or receive encrypted email. For more information on what to do in that case, see the Export or Backup Your MIT Personal Certificates
page at</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/GgTn"><span style="color: rgb(0, 19, 255); ">http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/GgTn</span></a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Questions?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; ">IS&T hopes that providing this information now will allow you to plan accordingly. Please encourage those you work with to renew their certificates as well.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">For more information, see the Certificates page at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 19, 255); "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates">http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">If you have questions or concerns, send email to the IS&T Help Desk at <a href="mailto:helpdesk@mit.edu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 19, 255); ">helpdesk@mit.edu</span></a> or
call them at 617.253.1101. You can also <a href="http://ist.mit.edu/help">send a request online</a>.</span></p>
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