What is a Digital Certificate?

A Digital Certificate is a credential, issued by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA), that helps you verify the identity of web or email services.

You can examine the certificate of any secure web page by clicking, or double-clicking, on the padlock icon on the status bar of your browser. The certificate for this page, for example, shows that it was issued to certs.cac.washington.edu, the service's domain name, and was issued by Thawte Server CA.

Your browser authmatically trusts certificates issued by many Certificate Authorities, including Thawte.

Why install the UW Server CA Certificate?

The University of Washington issues certificates to many of the web services at the university. In order for you to easily use those services, you must tell your browser or email program to accept certificates issued by the UW. Do that by clicking on the install button.


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Install the UW Server CA Certificate