[[!meta title="*.scripts.mit.edu certificate signed by Equifax"]]
We’re glad to let you know that we’ve purchased an SSL/HTTPS
certificate for \*.scripts.mit.edu domain names that’s signed by a
well-known signatory, Equifax, instead of by the MIT Certificate
Authority. This means that you can use HTTPS URLs for those domain
names in any popular browser without having to download and trust
the MIT CA in advance — great news for those of you running
websites that target people outside the MIT community. MIT client
certificates continue to work as normal.

We’ll also be installing an Equifax-signed certificate for
https://scripts.mit.edu/ soon, but we continue to encourage the use
of \*.scripts.mit.edu names instead of scripts.mit.edu/\~ names for
their improved security properties.

For those of you with \*.mit.edu names, you can continue to use or
request MIT-signed certificates as always, or you can have the
secure parts of your site use a \*.scripts.mit.edu URL or discuss
other arrangements with us.