Who should use a UW-Madison Digital ID?
Administrative staff
Protect sensitive personnel or student data that you need to send or receive from others.
Verify the source of group emails.
Faculty
Protect the sensitive nature of correspondence with your students.
Make sure your students know that your announcement about a class change really came from you, and not someone posing as you.
Students
Verify that your assignment was really turned in by you, on time.
Protect sensitive grade or advising info that you exchange with your professors.
Techies
For details on Digital IDs/PKI, see PKI Set Up
Public Key Infrastructure
Safeguard your digital ID
In a time of Internet fraud and spoofing, how can you be confident in the source of email and sensitive documents? Check for a digital ID.
Like a passport, a digital ID is an official way to validate to others on the Internet that you are who you say you are. A digital ID can keep snoopers from reading things in transit. It also protects your computer in case it is stolen.
The UW-Madison has licensed software to do this that is easy-to-install and use. It enables you to verify that the email and documents you send and receive are from the real authors—with these digital signatures no one can use another’s account.
Best of all, first year use of the software is FREE!*
Details on how to get it are at: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/middleware/pki/setup.asp
* Second year licensing costs may be partially subsidized by the campus.