University Certification Authority
Münster
The Certification Authority (CA) of the University of Münster supplies members and organizational units of the University of Münster and the Academy Of Fine Arts Münster with cryptographic certificates.
These certificates are a core component of digital IDs that can be used by people, groups and servers to identify themselves.
Main use area of the issued certificates is the protection of communication in the internet: Electronic signing, encrypting, and identifying.
The UCAM operates in the context of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) of the German Research Network Association (DFN-Verein) in support of science, research, and teaching.
Certificates are issued according to the X.509 standard. Electronic signatures created with them are “advanced electronic signatures“ as per eIDAS regulation of the European Union.