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://cert-manager.com/customer/belnet/idp/clientgeant

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

Login with your institution credentials. This page will look different for different institutions.

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