Signing of certificates

A certificate signing request must comply with certain conditions.


Conditions

  • The service has to comply with the policy for correct usage of ICT-infrastructure of Ghent University.
  • The server needs to be inside the UGent domain and registered as such with a fixed IP-address.
  • The contact person making the apply is the one mentioned on the IP report as the person in charge or contact person for the host.
  • The person in charge (department head or faculty department chairman) of the machine as mentioned on the IP report gets a copy of the application.
  • A few conditions concerning the different fields of the Certificate Signing Request (CSR):
CountryName BE
StateOrProvinceName O-VL
LocalityName Gent
OrganizationName Universiteit Gent
OrganizationalUnitName the name of the facultu department, department or direction
CommonName the machine name (in full, e.g. server.ugent.be)
EmailAddress only for a mail server the emailadres of the responsible for the service

Request certificates

HARICA (Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions Certification Authority) is a certification authority (CA) that issues digital certificates to governments, companies and individuals.