Certificates

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or S/MIME (Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) can be used to  encrypt and sign email messages. As part of the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) of the German Research Network (Deutsches Forschungsnetz - DFN) the University of Potsdam is entitled to issue the certificates you need to use S/MIME.

User certificates

can be requested at the DFN-AAI:

• go to https://cert-manager.com/customer/DFN/idp/clientgeant
• choose "University of Potsdam" and authenticate
• Certifcate Profile: "GÉANT Personal Certificate"
• Term: "1095 days"
• Enrolment Method: "Key Generation"
• Key Type: "RSA 4096"
• choose password
• accept EULA
• click Submit

Please read the Informationen für Zertifikatsinhaber.

Server certificates

Information on applying for server certificates can be found on the ZIM website https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/zim/angebote-loesungen/zertifikate.