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titleTCS Private Trust Anchors after August 28, 2023

Due to changes in the industry standards (CA/Browser Forum), dedicated client authentication certificates will be introduced by TCS by mid-August 2023. These are issued from a private trust hierarchy ("Research and Education Trust") and cannot be used for digitally signing emails ("S/MIME").

At the same time, the subject naming of email signing "S/MIME" certificates will change significantly - you cannot and must not rely on subject name uniqueness for these email signing certificates, and they must not be used for authentication purposes.

Make sure to install the "Research and Education Trust" roots, and (depending on the application) also the "GEANT TCS Authentication (RSA|ECC) CA 4B" on the server-side to continue supporting client authentication!

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Public Trust Roots

Trust anchor nameKey technologyCertificateCRL Distribution Pointmeta-dataTrust purposes
USERTrust RSA Certification AuthorityRSA4096/SHA384https://crt.sh/?id=1199354http://crl.usertrust.com/USERTrustRSACertificationAuthority.crlinfo-fileany
USERTrust ECC Certification AuthorityECC P384/SHA384https://crt.sh/?id=2841410http://crl.usertrust.com/USERTrustECCCertificationAuthority.crlinfo-fileany

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Installing these roots is required for use of the Private Authentication Intermediate (issuing) Authority certificates!

Trust anchor nameKey technologyCertificateCRL Distribution Pointmeta-dataTrust purposes
Research and Education Trust RSA Root CARSA4096/SHA384https://www.nikhef.nl/~davidg/tcsg4/ca_ResearchandEducationTrustRSARootCA.crthttp://crl.enterprise.sectigo.com/ResearchandEducationTrustRSARootCA.crlinfo-fileIGTF, Client Authentication
Research and Education Trust ECC Root CAP-384/SHA384https://www.nikhef.nl/~davidg/tcsg4/ca_ResearchandEducationTrustECCRootCA.crthttp://crl.enterprise.sectigo.com/ResearchandEducationTrustECCRootCA.crlinfo-fileIGTF, Client Authentication

Private Authentication Intermediate (issuing) Authority certificates

Installation of the corresponding Private Research and Education Trust Roots is required for these issuing intermediates to be trusted in your application!

Trust anchor nameKey technologyCertificateCRL Distribution Pointmeta-dataTrust purposes
GEANT TCS Authentication RSA CA 4BRSA4096/SHA384https://www.nikhef.nl/~davidg/tcsg4/ca_GEANTTCSAuthenticationRSACA4B.crthttp://crl.enterprise.sectigo.com/GEANTTCSAuthenticationRSACA4B.crlinfo-fileIGTF, Client Authentication
GEANT TCS Authentication ECC CA 4BP-384/SHA384https://www.nikhef.nl/~davidg/tcsg4/ca_GEANTTCSAuthenticationECCCA4B.crthttp://crl.enterprise.sectigo.com/GEANTTCSAuthenticationECCCA4B.crlinfo-fileIGTF, Client Authentication