[Macpartners] Fwd: MIT Personal Certificates: Time to Renew!

[Robert Marlatt]

Has anyone switched to Safari yet for certificate-required MIT 
websites? If so is the experience seamless and relatively painless? 
Eliminating Netscape would be a nice way to begin FY2005.

Thanks,
Bob

>Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 05:48:00 -0400
>To: Administrative Community <aac-aoquery at mit.edu>,
>    IT-Partners <itpartners at mit.edu>, it-lead at mit.edu
>From: Theresa M Regan <tregan at MIT.EDU>
>
>Date:   June 4th, 2004
>
>To:       Members of the MIT Community
>
>From:  Information Services and Technology
>
>Subj:   MIT personal certificate renewal time and
>             Web Browser Recommendations for FY 2005
>
>
>---------------
>
>As many colleagues experience at this time of year, MIT's personal 
>Web certificates expire periodically.  Certificates obtained in the 
>past year are set to expire between June 8th and July 31st, 2004. 
>Certificates may be renewed, at your convenience, anytime between 
>today and the end of July and they will be effective through July 
>31st, 2005.
>
>Information Services and Technology, IS&T, in concert with 
>colleagues who maintain and support websites across MIT, developed 
>the following browser recommendations to help simplify IT support 
>and provide a consistent set of standards, to which MIT web site 
>maintainers and providers can use to ensure delivery of quality web 
>services to the community.
>
>      -- Windows' users:  Internet Explorer, IE 6 SP1 or later, is 
>the recommended and supported web browser for the upcoming fiscal 
>year.  It is important that the web browser version be current with 
>the operating system and all critical web browser patches be 
>current.  Should you prefer to remain with Netscape, the recommended 
>version is Netscape 7.02.
>
>      -- Macintosh users:  Safari v 1.2.2 (x.509 personal certificate 
>support), Apple's developed and maintained web browser for MacOS X 
>(10.3.4 or later) joins the recommended and supported web browser 
>for the Macintosh platform.  Should you prefer to remain with 
>Netscape, the recommended version is Netscape 7.02.
>
>      -- Linux users:  Mozilla 1.6 is the current version available 
>in the Athena Linux and Solaris environments and is recommended for 
>stand alone Linux and Solaris installations.
>
>Renewal of personal Web certificates is not automatic.  To ensure 
>continued access to MIT's secure Web applications, such as, 
>Benefits, SAPweb, WebSIS, etc., plan to renew in the coming weeks. 
>Acquire your own new certificate now, 
><http://web.mit.edu/is/help/cert/>, and encourage those you work 
>with to do the same.  As a reminder, if you use certificates on 
>multiple machines, you will need to get a new certificate for each 
>machine.  Questions or problems with certificates, may be directed 
>to the Computing Help Desk at 617-253-1101, or 
><computing-help at mit.edu>.
>
>We hope that providing this information and recommendations now will 
>allow our colleagues to plan accordingly.  We remain confident that 
>these web browser recommendations will be effective for the upcoming 
>year and lessen the burden on software release efforts and desktop 
>maintenance.  Please feel free to share this announcement with 
>colleagues who may be interested and should you have any pressing 
>questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Software 
>Release team at <swrt at mit.edu> . 
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