University of Strathclyde Digital Certificates

This page contains information about digital certificates and their respective issuing Certificate Authorities. It may be used to verify certificate information being offered by services.

If you note any discrepancies, either on this page, or with servers purporting to be related to the University but not covered by this information, or you have any other questions, then please let us know via certmaster@strath.ac.uk.

Local (Strathclyde) Certificate Authorities

Strathclyde Network Support Root CA 1

The Network Team operates a Certificate Authority, for internal purposes.

The root certificate is:

ITS-ROOTCA

The DS Windows domain operates a Certificate Authority, for internal purposes.

The root certificate is:

There is an intermediate certificate:


Eduroam 802.1X certificates

eduroam.strath.ac.uk

The following certificate is in use for 802.1X authentication via eduroam. It is issued and signed by Strathclyde Network Support Root CA 1.


Commercial certificates via Sectigo (arrangement from 2025)

The University has a contract with Sectigo for 2 years from April 2025 for TLS certificates.

Certificate chain:

Note that for certificates issued from May 15 2025, the Root and Subordinate CA certificates for RSA based keys will change to be:

Note that on 14th April, the CA/Browser Forum voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements, setting a schedule for the shorterning of the lifetime of TLS certs:

AAA Certificate Services

This root certificate is used by Sectigo to sign the first subordinate CA (intermediate) certificate, and is signed by itself.

USERTrust RSA Certification Authority

This first subordinate CA (intermediate) certificate is used by Sectigo to sign the second subordinate CA (intermediate) certificate, and is itself signed by the root certificate.

Sectigo RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA

This second subordinate CA (intermediate) certificate is used by Sectigo to sign the server certificate, and is itself signed by the first subordinate CA (intermediate) certificate.


Legacy Information

Information on previous certificates and authorities and services is given here.