Congratulations on being offered a course place here at the University of Canberra!

As a potential student, you need to be aware that the University of Canberra views seriously any unauthorised access to your personal information. To ensure confidentiality over the Internet, the University implements a mechanism which provides a secure communication connection from the University back to your browser.

If your browser is already configured to recognise an encrypted connection to the secure University of Canberra servers, with the University of Canberra to handle your course offer.

If, however, this is your first visit to our secure University of Canberra service, please read the following information regarding secure communication with the University.

The description may appear complicated at first glance but it really isn't. We have attempted to supply you with sufficient information so that you are well informed regarding the issues of using the Internet for communication with the University.

On a more practical note, you will find that it is really quite simple to configure your browser for secure communication with the University (you only need to click one of the links below).

The University recognises that there is some concern by the public in using the Internet to send personal information and/or to make online credit card payments. To counter this concern, the University runs a number of special Web servers which ensure that all messages sent over the Internet between the end user and the server are encrypted ie we use the same type of technology employed by major banks and the military. This method of sending messages is used for activities such as credit card payments and for processing personal information. Employing this technique ensures that confidential information cannot be viewed during transit but it requires, however, that both the server and the browser participate in the encryption process.

This page will help you to configure your browser for encrypted transmission and, when successfully completed, will then allow you access to the University of Canberra pages to accept an offer of place, check your personal records etc in a secure manner.

To enable a secure encrypted communication path, you will need to ensure that your browser recognises, and accepts, the University of Canberra's Security Certificates. Without such a certificate, you won't even be able to connect to our secure Web servers.

The University has a Certificate Authority Server which can issue electronic certificates to browsers (Netscape version 2 and higher or Explorer version 3 and higher, versions 4 and higher recommended) to allow encrypted communication between the browser and secure University network servers. To obtain such a University Authority Certificate you will need to be issued with one that was created by the University's Certificate Authority server and it then needs to be downloaded to your browser.

Although some browser versions, will recognise a new Certificate Authority automatically, we recommend that you explicitly request the certificate. and, when prompted by your browser, accept the Certificate Authority as valid for all options presented (you will only need to do this once for any particular browser).

After you have configured your browser to recognise the University's certificate as described above, with the University of Canberra to action the University's course offer.