A personal certificate makes it possible to sign documents digitally and to sign and send encrypted emails.
Prequisite
The basis for issuing a certificate is an identity check, which is carried out at TU Dresden by authorized persons on campus or centrally by employees of the Service Desk. You can come to the Service Desk during opening hours with a valid ID document. You can view the current status of your identity check in the "Account information" section of your Self-Service Portal profile.
Publication
All personal certificates are automatically provided in the global address book of Exchange and LDAP directory of the DFN-PKI so that the exchange of encrypted emails is possible. Further information can be found in the FAQ on email encryption.
Enter a password for the certificate and then click on "Request certificate".
Requesting the certificate
Your certificate will be created. Wait until the process is complete. Do not close the browser window.Creation of the certificate
Once the process has been successfully completed, you can download the certificate by clicking on "Download certificate". Give the downloaded certificate file a meaningful name (e.g. persZert_FirstNameLastName_Date[YYYYMMDD] / persZert_MariaMustermann_20240424.p12)
Downloading the certificate