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Digital Credential for Higher Education. John Gardiner 202-973-6618 jgardiner@verisign.com August 11, 2004. Program Benefits . A shared PKI infrastructure to promote interoperability among higher education institutions at a significantly reduced cost.
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Digital Credential for Higher Education John Gardiner 202-973-6618 jgardiner@verisign.com August 11, 2004
Program Benefits • A shared PKI infrastructure to promote interoperability among higher education institutions at a significantly reduced cost. • Cost effectively offer Educause member organizations ability to leverage one PKI system, contract vehicle, and a standard policy • Shared Educause Member CA and associated policy • Rapid Implementation • Cross-certification with HEBCA and FBCA for interoperability with other non-member Universities • Pre-negotiated and Standardize Contract (MSA) for Education • Leveraging buying power across all members
PKI Offering • Managed PKI for SSL Global, Standard, and Intranet • SSL Certificates Issues from one control center. • Each Member have it own Managed PKI for SSL Account. • Educause PKI • Each Member can leverage the Educause root CA but has it’s own dedicated Sub-CA. • VeriSign Trust Network with use of Global Directory • Premium Options Include: • Key Management for Key Escrow • Premium Validation - OCSP • Gold Support Plan • 2 Admin Kits • Auto Enrollment Kit
VeriSign Managed PKI Service • Core Managed PKI Service • Create and host enterprise Certificate Authorities (CAs) • Manage the lifecycle of digital certificates (i.e., approve, issue, revoke, renew, recover and audit certificates) • MPKI Service Includes • VeriSign PKI services, support, maintenance, software upgrades, and PKI system back-ups • VeriSign-supplied FIPS 140-1 Level 3 Certificate Signing Unit (CSU) • Local Hosting Module • Automated Administration Hardware (Luna token and reader) • Disaster Recovery for CA • Gold Support Plan – Including 90 day test Pilot System. • Service Level Agreements
VeriSign Global Repository VeriSign Class 2 PCA VeriSign/Educause Member CA FBCA University of Texas CA University #1 Sub CA University #2 Sub CA University #3 Sub CA Higher Ed PKI Architecture Proposal #2 HEBCA • Interoperability via common VeriSign Root CA • All certificates posted in VeriSign global directory in addition to individual university directories • Common Educause member CA policy subordinate to VeriSign VTN policy-- Educause branding/site seal • Shared CA with keys stored on FIPS 140-1 Level 3 hardware. CA domain partitioned with each university having RA access over its piece of the CA domain. • Cross certification with HEBCA and FBCA at Shared CA level (Requires Sub CA Cert Profile reconfiguration and AUDIT of sub RA operations)