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Certificates issued by the LIP CA are valid only in the context of the academic research and educational activities, any other use including financial transactions are strictly forbidden.
Certificates issued by the LIP CA don't claim legal value.
End entities
The LIP CA issues certificates for entities related with the following organizations:
- Portuguese academic organizations (e.g. Universities and education institutes);
- Portuguese academic reserch centres (public and private non-profit).
The Subject entities for certificates are of the following types:
- Employees, researchers and students related with the above organizations;
- Computer systems and services related with the above organizations;
- Legal entities related with the above organizations.
The LIP CA will not be held liable for any direct or indirect problems arising from its operation or use of the certificates it issues.
The LIP CA is run in a best effort basis and does not give any guarantees about the service security. The CA operation is however performed with a reasonable level of security and the identity of the subjects requesting certificates will be verified accordingly with the CA policy.
The ownership of a LIP issued certificate does not imply automatic access to any computing resources. Access rights to individual machines must be granted by the corresponding system administrator before access is allowed.