Certification Authority at the BTU

The University Computing and Communications Services runs a Certification Authority to issue x509 certificates.

The work of this CA (CA = Certification Authority) is structured as follows:

• 1. BTU Root CA
  
  

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  Announcement: Since April 2010 the BTU Root CA won't issue any new certificates anymore. Already issued certificates may be used as long they are valid.
  New certifcates will be issued by the BTU CA Global only (i.e. DFN-PKI).

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• 2. BTU CA Global: The BTU-CA takes part in the  DFN-PKI  (the Public Key Infrastructure of the German Research Network) with the security level "Global".
  Main application areas: server certificates, certificates for students and employees (digital signature for email, WLAN and VPN access).

Online-Tutorial BTU CA Global (german only)

NEW :
CA on Demand - the easy way to the BTU CA Global certificate

• Further hints to work with SSL
• List of all issued certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL's)