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- Installing the CA certificate
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Installing the Certificate in Firefox
Follow these instructions to install the University of Edinburgh Certificate Authority (CA) certificate in Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape browsers.
1. Download the certificate
When you click on the certificate (see link below) a window will open telling you that you are about to install the new certificate.
2. Verify the certificate is correct
Click on View to check that the certificate is correct. You will now see that the certificate is issued to The University of Edinburgh and it is issued by The University of Edinburgh. Check that the certificate MD5 Fingerprint (the second in the list) is as follows:
88:32:55:71:84:A9:6F:0D:B9:31:D0:C2:76:61:7F:60
and click on Close. If the certificate fingerprint was incorrect then contact the IS Helpline for assistance.
3. Accepting the certificate
Now you need to accept the certificate for use with various services. Please select all three trust options on this screen and then click on OK.
This article was published on Nov 28, 2012