Before asking a personal certificate, the user must first meet face-to-face the local Registration Authority (RA) of the DZ e-Science CA that is responsible for checking users' identity.
the RA verifies that the user has a valid identity document;
the RA validates the request according the validity of identity document and the valid User PIN;
the user, using his/her own browser, download the DZ e-Science CA certificate;
if everything is all right, the user will receive, within 2 working days, the instructions needed to download his/her personal certificate (to download the certificate, you must use the same browser employed in the request phase);