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request of certificate fnmt of representative of entity without juridical personality

It is a computer file generated by a certification services entity that associates identity data to a natural person, organization or company, thus confirming its digital identity on the Internet.

The extension of the file resulting from a backup varies depending on the browser and whether it has a private key or not. The normal export process offered by current browsers generates files with extension «.cer» and «.p7b» when they do not contain the private key and files with extension «.p12» and «.pfx» when they contain the private key.

The University of Extremadura, under an agreement between the Regional Government of Extremadura and the Spanish Mint, has become the Registrar’s Office to accredit the data of users who request their digital certificate.

Once the application for the certificate has been made, please go to one of the registration offices of the University of Extremadura where you must provide your ID card and the application code that was given to you when you applied for the certificate.

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You will only be able to renew your certificate with Internet Explorer and older versions of Firefox, which must be 68 or earlier. In addition, you can only renew the certificate 60 days before it expires, and if it has expired you will no longer be able to renew it and you will have to apply for it from scratch. Therefore, we will start by explaining how to check the expiration date.

The first thing to do is to always know the expiration date of your electronic certificate. To renew the certificate you are going to have to use the one you have now, so it is important that you do not let it expire or you will not be able to use it. The certificate will stop being used the same day it expires, so it is advisable not to let the date pass. You will have to renew it during the 60 days prior to its expiration. Two months.

To do this, you have to enter the certificate management options of your browser. In Chrome you will find the option in the Privacy and security section of the advanced settings, in Microsoft Edge it is in the Privacy and services options, in the Privacy section, and in Firefox it is in the Privacy & Security options, in the Certificates section.

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Any user can obtain an electronic signature through a Certification Authority and guarantee their identity through the Internet in a simple and accessible way.  There are several Certification Authorities, the best known being the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (FNMT).

This certificate, also known as Citizen or User Certificate, is a digital document that contains your identification data. It will allow you to identify yourself on the Internet and exchange information with other people and organizations with the guarantee that only you and your interlocutor can access it.

2. Request your Certificate of User Identity of Natural Person. You can request a Certificate on the page: https://www.sede.fnmt.gob.es/certificados or https://www.sede.fnmt.gob.es/certificados/persona-fisica , by entering your DNI or NIE in the corresponding field and click on «Send request». The page will return a request code that you should print and save for use in the next two steps.

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Bearing in mind that the certificate renewal process can be carried out during the sixty days prior to the expiration date of the certificate (as long as it has not been previously revoked) and that we need to have the certificate available on the computer from which we are going to request the renewal, we will access the section of the FNMT website dedicated to certificates: sede.fnmt.gob.es/certificados.

The first step to start the process will be to identify ourselves with our certificate to be renewed, as we do when carrying out any other procedure, and the website will present us with the conditions of use of the electronic, computer and telematic systems for obtaining certificates to be issued by the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, in force at the time of the request. We will have to accept them in order to continue.

We will then return to the section of the web dedicated to the renewal of our certificate and click on Download the certificate. Enter the password received and you will be able to download the renewed certificate to your computer, which must be the same one used for the renewal request.