NGS - National Grid Service

UK e-Science Certification Authority

15 May 2005: The CA has been upgraded and can now be reached at the following address: http://www.ngs.ac.uk/certoverview. You will be redirected shortly; if not, click the link.

Problems accessing the CA or other UK e-Science websites over https with Firefox/Mozilla?

If you get an error message such as:

"Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority. Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number"

This is due to a bug in Mozilla-based browsers and can be solved by re-importing the UK e-Science root certificate into your browser:

  • Remove the CA root certificate from your browser (listed in Preferences - Advanced - Manage Certificates - Authorities)
  • Click this link to import the root: root certificate
  • Follow your browser's prompts to store the certificate in the browser's root store.

If you are continuing to have problems please contact the Grid Operations Support Centre helpdesk: support@grid-support.ac.uk.