Certification Service
CS

Support and Contacts
+06 4962 2000
+39 050 221 3158
Other contacts
For membership requests, support, technical issues, and admin account management, please write to:
For general questions about using the platform, types of certificates, their creation, and usage, use the mailing list:
Subscription to the mailing list is managed by GARR CS and is reserved for Registration Authority Officers and Department Registration Authority Officers appointed by each organization.
GARR CS (Certification Service)
The GARR Certification Service provides free digital certificates, both personal and server types, to all institutions connected to the GARR network.
The certificates are issued by the Certification Authority HARICA through the GEANT Trusted Certificate Service

GARR participates in the Trusted Certificate Service (TCS) promoted by Géant for the benefit of European research networks
TYPES OF CERTIFICATES ISSUED
GARR participates in the Trusted Certificate Service (TCS)M promoted by Géant for the benefit of European research networks.
Through this service, GARR provides its community with digital x.509 certificates (also available in e-Science version, valid for authentication on GRID resources) issued by one of the major commercial Certification Authorities: HARICA, automatically recognized by nearly all existing web browsers.
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SSL certificates: for server authentication and securing sessions with clients;
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GRID certificates: for server and Grid service authentication (IGTF compliant);
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Personal certificates and personal GRID certificates: for user authentication and securing email communications;
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Code signing certificates: for software signing;
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Document signing certificates: for authenticating documents created with Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice.

TCS Certificates
CERTIFICATE REQUEST AND GENERATION
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Administrator: For managing requests and generating digital certificates, see the guide by GARR CS dedicated to service managers: https://tcs-docs.aai.garr.it
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Users: For submitting certificate requests, please refer to the digital certificate managers within your organization.