User certificate
Digital certificates
A digital certificate is a digital data record that proves the authenticity and integrity of a person, an organisation or a computer based on cryptographic procedures. This results in various fields of application for the protection of confidential and sensitive data. For example, the use of a digital signature makes it possible to precisely trace the sender of a piece of information and its integrity.
Wismar UAS uses the public key infrastructure of the DFN-Verein to issue corresponding certificates for its employees.
All employees of Wismar UAS can apply for a personal certificate. The certificate is issued by DFN-Verein.
Increasingly, administrative processes at Wismar University of Applied Sciences are to be made paper-free. Verifications of purely digital documents are carried out with the help of a digital signature. You can find out how this is done with the help of the personal user certificate here.
With a personal user certificate ,emails can be digitally signed and encrypted. The prerequisite for this is the import of the certificate in the user's email client application.
Attention!
Due to the short-term change in DFN's certification service provider at the end of 2024, only user certificates that are suitable for signing an email address can currently be issued.
Certificates that can be used to digitally sign documents will be available again shortly.