- First select the type of certificate that you want to request by clicking on the tab at the top.
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- SSL Certificates are for servers.
- Grid Certificates are for both servers and clients who participate in the global e-Science Grid.
- Client Certificates at the moment can be manually obtained via CertCentral. We are working on the integration of SAML in the Digicert portal.
- Code Signing Certificates to sign software (or objects);
- Document Signing is for signing documents on behalf of an organization. Client certificates can also be used but there are differences, certainly in a PDF environment using Adobe Acrobat.