Repository of Documentation

Trustis FPS Healthcare Issuing Authority Digital Certification Services

Guides
About Digital Certificates	An introduction to Digital Certificates
The ABC's of Secure Electronic Commerce	A general briefing on encryption, digital signatures, digital certificates and how they are managed, and how they are used to support secure electronic commerce. (Note that this is in pdf format and requires a suitable reader. A free reader for almost any computer can be obtained from http://www.adobe.com
Glossary of terms	Need to know what a word or phrase means - look it up here.
Requesting and Installing Web-Server certificates	Help on creating, requesting and installing certificates for many of the commercial web-servers

Root Certificate
Download the Root Certificate	You need this certificate to have your applications trust digital certificates issued by this Issuing Authority.
Ordering Certificates	If you are registered with the NHS Address Registration Service, your application for a Certificate could not be simpler. All that is needed is an NHS Organisation Code and a Purchase Order Number. NHS personnel will vet the application and process the request and then Trustis will do the rest, including making your certificate and sending you an invoice.

Microsoft Root Certificate Program Membership
Microsoft Root Certificate Program	Trustis is a member of the Microsoft Root Certificate Program. This automatically embeds the Trustis FPS root CA certificate in Microsoft browsers.

All Third Party Trademark Rights Acknowledged.

This document is licensed for use only in conjunction with the use of Trustis Limited Trust Services.