The Foundation for National Scientific Computation (FCCN) ensures the supply of various types of Digital Certificates to entities belonging to the Science, Technology and Society Network (RCTS). This is a service to which the University of Porto has subscribed and which aims to promote the security, authenticity, confidentiality and integrity of information sent and received through the Internet.
One type of certificate provided is the Personal Digital Certificate, which allow the identification of the user as being part of an institution and can be used to sign email messages.