Comodo Partner Notification - 2048 bit certificate key lengths

Comodo issue the certificates for the JANET Certificate Service and they have made the following announcement regarding the key length of their certificates.

From Dec 20th 2010 onwards, Comodo will no longer issue certificates of less than 2048 bit key length and will not accept Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) generated with keys of less than 2048 bit.

 

This is in line with the NIST guidelines [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-Part1- revised2_Mar08-2007.pdf], as well as the policies of Mozilla [https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:MD5and1024 ], Microsoft [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx ]

 

Partners and customers of partners can continue to use existing 1024 bit certificates on their websites after this date but, at renewal time, they must generate CSRs using 2048 bit keys.

 

For further information please contact the JANET Service Desk (service@ja.net or telephone 0300 300 2212).