Client-based email encryption

To assist in protecting your own and third-party personal data, we have been providing you with the infrastructure for obtaining email certificates for a client-based email signature and encryption (S/MIME).

These enable you to sign your emails digitally and, if you have the recipient's certificate, send encrypted emails.

We provide you with a portal for requesting S/MIME certificates.

Information on order process, costs and billing only available after registration.

Service for:: Student, Staff
First Level Support:: help@it.tuwien.ac.at

Some information is currently only available in German.

Client-based mail encryption

Certificate creation

Step 2: Certificate Installation

Exchange environment under iOS

Exchange environment under Android

Service Center

Ticketsystem Online Portal, opens an external URL in a new window
Hotline 01 588 01 42002

help@it.tuwien.ac.at
1040 Wien, Operngasse 11, EG

The Service Center can be reached digitally from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Safety and Security Measures, opens an external URL in a new window

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
CookieConsent	Saves your settings for the use of cookies on this website.	1 year	HTML	Homepage TU Wien
SimpleSAML	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
SimpleSAMLAuthToken	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
fe_typo_user	Is needed so that in case of a Typo3 frontend login the session ID is recognized to grant access to protected areas.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien
staticfilecache	Is needed to optimize the delivery time of the website.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
_pk_id	Used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.	13 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ref	Is used to store the information of the users home website.	6 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ses	Is needed to store temporary data of the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
nmstat	Is used to record the behaviour on the website. It is used to collect statistics about website usage, such as when the visitor last visited the website. The cookie does not contain any personal data and is only used for website analysis.	1000 days	HTML	Siteimprove
siteimproveses	Is used to track the sequence of pages that a visitor views during his/her visit to the website. The cookie does not contain any personal data and is used solely for website analysis.	session	HTTP	Siteimprove
AWSELB	Always occurs in pairs with siteimproveses (for load balancing on the provider server)	session	HTTP	Siteimprove

Client-based email encryption

Benefit

Properties

Service Center