Personal Computing

MIT Certificates

How to Obtain

Web certificates allow for trusted and secure connections with certain web sites at MIT. For example, WebSIS (the MIT Student Information System) is only accessible to those with MIT Site Certificates and Personal Certificates installed in their web browsers. Please note that you cannot get web certificates without first obtaining your Kerberos ID.

Web certificates are tied to particular web browsers. So if you were, for example, to use Safari, Firefox, or Opera web browsers on your Macintosh, you would need install certificates for each of these browsers. STOA strongly recommends using CertAid to configure your certificates for Chome, Internet Explorer, Edge, and Safari.  For Firefox, please click here.

For all other browsers, please use the Get an MIT Certificate page. To test your certificates, please click here.

Expiration

Personal certificates expire every year on July 31st. When renewing certificates, please be sure to delete your old (expired) certificates.