HPCI Certification Authority¶
Introduction¶
The HPCI Certificate Authority (HPCI CA) is administered by the National Institute of Informatics (NII). HPCI CA issues client certificates for authenticating of HPCI users as well as server and service certificates required to use the HPCI environment.
HPCI CA issues certificates to people who are authorized to use the HPCI environment by the HPCI Consortium.
The operational policy of HPCI CA is compliant to the certificate policy and certification practice statement (CP/CPS).
HPCI CA is compliant with the Member Integrated Credential Service (MICS) profile and accredited by the Interoperable Global Trust Federation (IGTF).
If there is anything else you would like to know about the HPCI CA, please contact the authority administrator.
News¶
Note
About network maintenance of system at June 22, 2024.(April 23, 2024)
Due to network maintenance, some services may not be available temporarily during the following periods.
In that case, please wait for a while and then access again.
- Time
- 2024/06/22 00:00 - 06:00 JST
- Services
- - The service to disclose information in Certificate Authority Repository
- All services of HPCI Certificate Issuing System (portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
- All services of OpenID Provider (metis.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
- All services of jwt-server (elpis.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
- All services of Token Authorization File Provision Repository (repo.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
You can issue the proxy certificate if you replace "portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp" with "portal-c.hpci.nii.ac.jp" in HPCI Login Manual.
User's Guide HPCI Login Manual
http://www.hpci-office.jp/pages/e_hpci_info_manuals
Note
About network maintenance of system at June 10, 2024.(April 23, 2024)
Due to network maintenance, some services may not be available temporarily during the following periods.
In that case, please wait for a while and then access again.
- Time
- 2024/06/10 00:00 - 06:00 JST
- Services
- - All services of HPCI Certificate Issuing System (portal-c.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
You can use the services provided by HPCI Certificate Issuing System on "portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp" as usual.
Note
About network maintenance of system at May 18, 2024.(April 23, 2024)
Due to network maintenance, some services may not be available temporarily during the following periods.
In that case, please wait for a while and then access again.
- Time
- 2024/05/18 00:00 - 01:30 JST
- Services
- - All services of HPCI Certificate Issuing System (portal-c.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
You can use the services provided by HPCI Certificate Issuing System on "portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp" as usual.
Note
About network maintenance of system at April 05, 2024.(April 04, 2024)
====2024/04/08 added====
All maintenances were completed, all services are now available.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Due to network maintenance, some services may not be available temporarily during the following periods.
In that case, please wait for a while and then access again.
- Time
- 2024/04/05 09:00 - 12:00 JST
- Services
- - The service to disclose information in Certificate Authority Repository
- All services of HPCI Certificate Issuing System (portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
You can issue the proxy certificate if you replace "portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp" with "portal-c.hpci.nii.ac.jp" in HPCI Login Manual.
User's Guide HPCI Login Manual
http://www.hpci-office.jp/pages/e_hpci_info_manuals
Note
About network maintenance of system at April 17, 2024.(April 04, 2024)
====2024/04/17 added====
All maintenances were completed, all services are now available.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Due to network maintenance, some services may not be available temporarily during the following periods.
In that case, please wait for a while and then access again.
- Time
- 2024/04/17 12:00 - 14:00 JST
- Services
- - The service to disclose information in Certificate Authority Repository
- All services of HPCI Certificate Issuing System (portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
===2024/04/16 added===
- All services of OpenID Provider (metis.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
- All services of jwt-server (elpis.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
- All services of Token Authorization File Provision Repository (repo.hpci.nii.ac.jp)
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You can issue the proxy certificate if you replace "portal.hpci.nii.ac.jp" with "portal-c.hpci.nii.ac.jp" in HPCI Login Manual.
User's Guide HPCI Login Manual
http://www.hpci-office.jp/pages/e_hpci_info_manuals
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Contact us¶
Academic Infrastructure Division Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department
National Institute of Informatics
Address: 2-1-2, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
E-mail: 
The contact phone number was discontinued on March 31, 2022.