The Board Workspace is a secure area, accessible only to McGovern Institute board members.

If you have already downloaded your certificate, you may enter the Board Workspace directly.

If you have not yet downloaded the certificate, you will not be permitted to access the Board Workspace. In order to download a certificate, please go to http://web.mit.edu/is/cert/ (it will appear in a new browser window) and execute the following steps:

Please use Netscape, or the process is much more complicated. Click on "Get MIT CA Certificate." A pop-up window will appear. Read the text and click "next" three times, then check off the three boxes labelled "Accept this Certificate Authority for Certifying..." You have a choice of whether or not you are alerted when sending or receiving secure information from a certified site; check the box if you would like to see a warning each time. Finally, you need to give a name to the site certificate; something that will help you remember it later. The name "MIT" is sufficient, since this particular certificate is pertinent to the entire MIT website rather than just the McGovern Institute.

Click on "Get MIT Personal Certificate." This certificate identifies you specifically, allowing you to access the McGovern Institute website's protected areas. Users possessing only the CA Certificate are not allowed access. In the "Kerberos name" field, enter your MIT email address username. If your email address is johnsmith@mit.edu, you would enter "johnsmith" into the field (minus quotes). Likewise, in the "Kerberos password" field, enter the password that you use to access your MIT email account. Click on "Submit." Read the instructions on the resulting page, and click "Next." A pop-up window will appear, wherein you should click "OK." In the password window, you can choose whether or not to protect your certificates with a password. Continue to follow the instructions.

Note: MacOS users are only able to access the Board Workspace area while using Netscape.