RIT Certificate Authority Content

RIT Certificate Authority

The RIT Certificate Authority, created and maintained by ITS, provides a chain of trust for electronic communications. It forms the basis of a public key infrastructure for services (particularly those protected with SSL/TLS encryption) of value to the campus.

We recommend that all RIT-owned computers import and trust the RIT Certificate Authority.

In nearly all cases, your System Administrators have taken care of this for you, and the below certificates should not be necessary. Importing the certificate for the RIT Certificate Authority (CA) allows your computer to accurately identify other certificates that are chained from it. Trusting the imported CA certificate avoids presenting dialogs to you when it encounters a service that has been signed by it.

Manually import and trust the RIT Certificate Authority

If necessary, you can easily manually import the RIT CA files below. Operating systems and Web browsers typically provide a way to do this, which can vary. Please contact ITS ResNet for assistance with manually importing these certificates, if necessary.

Importing the certificates and trusting the RIT CA manually is one way to set up the RIT CA in certain third-party applications, such as Mozilla Firefox, that do not use the operating system certificate store.

These certificates are only good for several years at a time, and must be re-imported and trusted as new ones are posted.
 

Download certificates bundle

Download all RIT/ITS Certificate Authority certificates in a single PKCS #7 Certficate bundle.

Certificate Download
RIT Certificate Authorities Bundle RIT_CA_certs.p7b
(Right Click → Save As on link above)
SHA1: f5a3cfdf397a45cdb1c1a4e861e0787c1f459a01
Expiration: June 2019

 

Download individual certificates

Download the RIT Certificate Authority certificates as individual “DER” files below. In most cases, it is necessary to import all certificates below, so the chain of trust is complete.

Certificate Download
RIT ROOT CA
(trusted root)

RITROOTCA.crt
(Right Click → Save As on link above)
SHA1: 1b74f2c734953e6e68608bc231a5b7ef254e1b4c
Expiration: 6/1/2025
RIT AD Signing CA
(intermediate)		 RIT AD Signing CA.crt
(Right Click → Save As on link above)
SHA1: 633e66d4fdb77e1bc25b7ed400d9d3ebe22fcefa
Expiration: 7/2/2020

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RSC is the first point of contact for all your technology questions or issues.
In Person: Frank E. Gannett Hall, Room 1113
Phone: (585) 475-5000
Hours of Operation for ITS Support:

Normal Hours

Mon - Thu: 7:30 A.M. - 7:00 P.M.
Fri: 7:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Sat - Sun: 12:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

In-Person support available Mon - Fri 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. (Available only when classes are in session)

 

Break/Summer Hours

Mon - Fri: 7:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Sat - Sun: Closed