This is for administrators at Sunet TCS members for the 2025- "HARICA generation" of the Sunet TCS service.
THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS. PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER / SEND EMAILS BEFORE WE INFORM YOU ON SUNET-TCS-MEMBERS AND SUNET FORUM TCS.
The HARICA Certificate Manager is located at https://cm.harica.gr
Consider joining the TCS network at https://forum.sunet.se/s/tcs/ to get information and to be able to discuss the service with Sunet TCS and other users. Important news will also be shared, as before, using the SUNET-TCS-MEMBERS mailing list (where one function address per organization is present since your organization joined the service), but information about minor issues may be shared here, as well as tentative information before we know enough to raise it to the SUNET-TCS-MEMBERS level.
Email tcs@sunet.se after making sure that this document does not contain the answer to your question or a solution to your problem. Do not email Kent's personal email address.
2025-01-10: For the time being, contact HARICA support only on instructions from Sunet TCS. We will provide you with the email address when doing so.
Look at https://wiki.geant.org/display/TCSNT/TCS+2025+FAQ but keep in mind that parts of that documentation is for NREN administrators (called Enterprise Manager in HARICA CM) and not for organisation administrators (called Enterprise Admin in HARICA CA).
The HARICA Certificate Manager of course looks different from the Sectigo Certificate Manager. We are all using the same URL for HARICA CM (not a specific Sunet URL).
The containter that keeps your organization details together with the set of domains and certificates that belong to you is now called Enterprise in HARICA CM, instead of Organization (as in Sectigo CM) or Division (as earlier at DigiCert).
You who are administrators at this level are now called Enterprise Admin (approximately the same role as RAO in the Sectigo CM).s you
There is no direct replacement for the Department level that existed below Organization in the Sectigo CM, and as such there is no role corresponding to DRAO.
2025-01-10: There may be ways to implement this in the future. Please do not attempt do recreate this using Subunits or other things you find in the interface unless instructed by Sunet TCS.
The HARICA CM allows people to create users that will be matched to you organization via domain matching on the email address. Such users start out without any privileges in the system (cannot approve certificates, cannot add domains etc) but they can request certificates. This resembles the model we had with DigiCert (for Sectigo, there were only admin users of various levels).
A user cannot approve their own requests, regardless of privileges in the system. You need to have one user request a certificate and another user approve it.
From the start of the service your can get this before your Organization Validation is completed:
When Organization Validation is completed you can also get:
Server certificate EV is not part of the contract.
2025-01-10: Server certificates and authentication certificates for grid use will become available later
2025-01-10: Other certificate types such as code-signing should become available later for a per-certificate fee
You cannot tune notifications as you could for Sectigo. From start, a single function email address per enterprise will get all notifications for new requests, expiring validations etc.
To get access to the new system, first:
Then email tcs@sunet.se with a subject line like "TCS2025: organization name" and tell us:
When we receive and handle the requests, we will create your Enterprise (the HARICA term for the container for your organization and its domains, certificates etc) in the system and make the indicated user the first Enterprise Manager for you.
Contact tcs@sunet.se about membership in the service. Do not send any paper documents before that and do not register in the HARICA CM system.
To validate the first domain added when your enterprise was created or any additional domains added later, go to Enterprise → Admin and select your enterprise line. In the new pane, select Domains. You will now be able to use the Validate Domain button to initiate Domain Control Validation (DCV).
You can select email or DNS methods:
In the field for "Email of user that will validate the Enterprise" you enter the email of yourself or any other user registered in HARICA CM that will complete the validation. Then follow the instructions in the email you get to complete validation.
Domains that have not been validated yet have a validity date in the past (the day before the domain was added).
To be able to used additional domains you need to add them first, and then validate as above. To add, go to Enterprise → Admin and select your enterprise in the list. In the pane that appears, click your enterprise in the new list too. At the enterprise information page you get to, use the globe icon at the top right corner to get to the Add Domain page.
Download the sample CSV file and edit it to add one or more domains instead of the HARICA example names. Upload the edited file and accept it. The domains will not show up at once (there is a manual check by HARICA before they are accepted). When the domains have been added you can validate them as per above.
2025-01-10: The CSV parser requires the first line to contain the text Domain without quotes around it. If your spreadsheet program adds quotes, you may have to removed them. In other words, the expected file format is a test file with Domain on the first line and then one or more domain names on the subsequent lines.
Contact tcs@sunet.se if this is needed.
For you to be able to issue server certificates of the OV type, or S/MIME IV+OV, the organization validation needs to be completed. That can be done by Sunet TCS or by you.
2025-01-10: We ask you to wait with this. You can still issue server certificates DV and email-only S/MIME-certificates. If you need OV, contact tcs@sunet.se. We will provide further instructions here when we and HARICA are ready for everybody to be organization validated.
2025-01-10: This section will be added soon.
2025-01-10: This section will be added soon.
2025-01-12: Mention current limit on 10 supplied SAN in cert.
2025-01-10: This section will be added soon. Most of you will like to wait until self-service with federated login is in place.
2025-01-10: ACME via HARICA is not at this moment on par with what was offered by Sectigo, but improvements are on the roadmap. We will update this section when it is in place. We recommend using Let's Encrypt for ACME as of now.
2025-01-10: There are APIs available. We will update this section with links to relevant documentation when we have it.
2025-01-10: This section will be added. There is some information already at https://wiki.geant.org/display/TCSNT/TCS+2025+FAQ