This document provides step-by-step guidance on how to make your certificates discoverable to the Catena-X Network using the Dataspace OS Certificate Management Application.
Discoverability means that any trusted member of Catena-X can retrieve your published certificate via the PULL mechanism, enabling secure, on-demand access when certificate validation is required.
Making your certificate available and discoverable within Catena-X offers several advantages:
Simplified certificate validation: Other trusted participants can retrieve and verify your certificate directly when establishing secure connections.
Reduced manual exchange: There is no need anymore to distribute certificates individually to each partner.
Automated integration: Systems can programmatically access certificates, supporting seamless machine-to-machine communication.
Network-wide trust enablement: Public availability of certificates supports secure interactions across the ecosystem.
Scalability: As your number of partners grows, automated certificate retrieval ensures efficient and maintainable collaboration.
Easy access to your partners certificates: with an open trusted way of sharing certificates, you can easily retrieve the certificates of your partners which are part of the ecosystem.
Prerequisites
Before starting the certificate exchange process, ensure the following steps are completed:
Your company is successfully onboarded in the Cofinity-X Portal.
You have subscribed to the Dataspace OS application via the Cofinity-X Portal Marketplace. For additional information or assistance, please contact [email protected].
1. Sign Data Governance Credential
Please sign data governance credentials. Navigate in the Cofinity-X portal to Profile Menu → Company Wallet → Request New Credential. Select DataExchangeGovernance and Proceed.
2. Ensure your EDC is registered
To register your EDC, please follow this guide: Managing EDC registration
3. Share the Certificate via Dataspace OS Certificate Management
3.1 Sign in to Dataspace OS
Log in to Dataspace OS using the username and password provided by customer support, or via Cofinity-X Portal SSO. Detailed instructions are available here: First Sign in to Dataspace OS | Cofinity-X Help Center
Navigate to: Use Cases Adonis → Certificate Management
Note: If the Certificate Management application is not yet activated for your account, please contact [email protected] to request activation.
3.2 Uploading Certificates
Open the Certificates section.
Click on “Add Certificate” and upload your Certificate PDF:
2. Fill out the required fields:
Certificate Type, Version, Registration Number, Issuer and Validity – all can be found on the certificate.
Add optionally the Area of application.
3. Add the Applicable Certificate Location
Choose the address of the certificate from the Certificate location drop-down menu.
4. To make the certificate public, enable "Publish certificate for all dataspace participants"
5. Click on save and continue and close the sharing window.
3.3. Existing Certificate
Identify the certificate in the list.
Open Actions → Update
Enable "Publish certificate for all dataspace participants"