Request a Free Certificate for the Contact to Fraunhofer

In order to establish secure e-mail communications with Fraunhofer you need a certificate, too. In case you haven't yet got a certificate for yourself, you can get one for free via this website. However, the issuing of a certificate must generally be initiated by a Fraunhofer employee. Please refer to our detailed user guide for any further information with regard to the necessary sequence of events.

In addition it is neccessary that you trust the issuer - the so-called root instance - of your future certificate. Therefore you need to import the root certificate of the Fraunhofer Contacts PKI once.

For security reasons thereby your e-mail address is checked: Your Fraunhofer communication partner will send you an activation link to obtain the requested certicate to the address named. Please ask your Fraunhofer communication partner to apply for your certificate if this hasn't been done already.

Please take note of the guidelines of the PKI for Fraunhofer Contacts, namely:

• Certificates are intended for communications with Fraunhofer employees or for communications amongst partners in a Fraunhofer-related context, such as project work etc. A more general use - beyond a Fraunhofer-related context - is not permitted.
• Certificate are exclusively issued on request of a Fraunhofer employee, a claim thereon does not exist. Certificates have a valid period of three years and can be revoked at any time.
• The fact that a person holds such a certificate does not mean that he/she or his/her company is a partner or employee of Fraunhofer or co-operates with Fraunhofer in a certain way.