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Certificate Authority Application Process

CREN's Certificate Authority Service is available to CREN member institutions at no additional charge (check if you are a CREN member here). The application process is initiated by your CREN Member Representative (look up your Member Rep. here).

The application process is described in our "Step-by-Step Application Process" document (downloadable in Microsoft Word or PDF format). In a nutshell, the process has two phases:

An application and registration process that validates the Institutional Representatives and sets up secure communication channels
The request, issuance and acceptance of the Institutional Certificate

You can read about the certification process in detail in our "Certification Practices" and "Operations and Procedures" documents. All documents (including an Application Form and Application Checklist) are available from our Documents page.

Once the application process has been initiated, you can check your institution's progress from our Application Checklist page.

A CREN Member Rep can initiate the application process by contacting the CREN Admin Contact at cren@cren.net. Please put "CA Application" in the Subject field.

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This page was last updated on Tuesday, March 21,2000