The clients, either WinX or Web, need to have a certificate installed if the connection to the web service should use secure communication (HTTPS). This certificate can either be a root authority certificate, a self-signed or any other public key certificate from a certificate authority enabling a secured connection between the web service and the clients.
If you already have a valid (authorized) public key certificate available you can use this on the clients and web service. Otherwise you can create a certificate as described in [[HowTo:Create_UBIK_Web_Service_Certificates]].
A machine, hosting As the {{UBIKWeb}} client connects to the content server similar as any mobile client it needs also to be authorized using a certificate. Hence, whatever machine hosts the {{UBIK Web Client }} client application needs to have the certificate installed as well.
=== Install Root Authority Certificate ===