Obtaining a certificate

Quick documentation

If you are familiar with the certificates request procedure and you are confident, follow these steps, otherwise go to section More extensive documentation:

 1. Go to https://cert-manager.com/customer/belnet/idp/clientgeant;
 2. Choose your institution, and login;
 3. Request a GEANT Personal Authentication certificate and use RSA - 8192 as Key type for Key Generation;
 4. Give a Password to secure the P12 file that contains the certificate and Submit and Agree with the EULA; 
 5. This last step will trigger automatically the download of your certificate in a P12 file;
 6. You now have to upload the certificate on you browser.

More extensive documentation

Go to https://cm.harica.gr/

Choose "Academic Login" and you will redirected to the IdP federation login page

Choose your institution, e.g., by typing 'ULB' or 'VUB'

Login with your institution credentials. This page may look different depending on the institution.

When logged in you will arrive at the Dashboard page. At this point, you need to go ro "IGTF Client Auth".

Here choose "GEANT Personal Authentication"

Here just press "Next"

Check the box to agree with the policy. And press "Submit Request"

Request a GEANT Personal Authentication certificate and use RSA - 8192 as Key type for Key Generation.

A this point the certificate is generated and you can just save it in your computer

On your browser, go to
[Firefox] Preferences -> Certificates -> View Certificates
[chrome] Settings > Privacy and Security > Security > Manage Certificates > Your Certificates

Press the Import button and select the cert.p12 files you just downloaded

The certificate is now listed in the Certificate Manager