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Hongkong Post e-Cert CA

Renewal of e-Cert

1. e-Cert (Personal) certificate

1.1 Extension of Subscription Period

The e-Cert (Personal) is physically valid for three years and its subscription period is one year. Subscribers may choose to pay the annual subscription fee in order to extend the subscription period. At present, the annual subscription fee for e-Cert is HK$50. If a Subscriber does not continue the subscription after the expiry of the subscription period, Hongkong Post will inactivate the e-Cert by suspension or revocation. According to the Electronic Transactions Ordinance, the inactivated certificates will be included in the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) published on Hongkong Post web site.

Methods of Extending Subscription Period:

1.2 Certificate Renewal

The validity period of e-Cert (Personal) is three years. Subscribers may renew their certificates before the expiry of the three-year validity period of the e-Cert (usually within 3 weeks' time before the expiry of the certificate). The renewal fee for the first year subscription period of the renewed e-Cert is HK$50. A floppy disk containing the renewed e-Cert will be sent to the Subscriber through registered mail after completion of the renewal application.

Methods of renewing e-Cert (Personal):

A. Embed e-Cert to Smart ID Card

Apply Now (For those subscribers who want to load the renewed certificate from floppy disk to Smart ID Card, please read the user guide of "How to load e-Cert from floppy disk to Smart ID Card")
Attend 20 designated post offices in person [Important Note]

B. NOT Embed e-Cert to Smart ID Card

2. e-Cert (Organisational) certificate

The Authorised Representative ("AR") of the organisation can download e-Cert (Organisational) Renewal Application Form (PDF Format) and submit the completed forms with the required documents and appropriate renewal application fees in person to any post office.

3. e-Cert (Encipherment) certificate

The Authorised Representative ("AR") of the organisation can download e-Cert (Encipherment) Renewal Application Form (PDF Format) and submit the completed forms with the required documents and appropriate renewal fees in person to any post office.

4. e-Cert (Server) certificate

The Authorised Representative ("AR") of the organisation can download e-Cert (Server) Renewal Application Form (PDF Format) and submit the completed forms with the required documents and appropriate renewal fees in person to any post office.
After receipt and approval of renewal, Hongkong Post will send a Certificate Signing Request ("CSR") email to request AR to generate the CSR from the server concerned and upload it to Hongkong Post for further process of application.
- Upload the Certificate Signing Request ("CSR")
- You may read e-Cert (Server) User Guide for more information on the procedures of CSR upload.
You may read the application workflow (PDF Format) for more information.

NOTE: All download documents can be read with Acrobat Reader.

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