What is HARICA?

HARICA is the Hellenic Academic & Research Institutions Certification Authority. It participates in all major Global ‘ROOT CA’ Trust Programs, and operates as a ‘Trust Anchor’ in widely used Application Software and Operating Systems.

Should I trust HARICA ?

The Hellenic Academic & Research Institutions Certification Authority (HARICA ) is a member of Mozilla Root CA program since 2012, Microsoft Root CA program since June 2013, Apple Root CA program since September 2013, 360 Root CA program since October 2019 and Oracle since April 2021.

HARICA is pre-installed as a “Trust Anchor” in Mozilla Firefox browser (version 11 or later), Operating Systems and software by Microsoft (Windows XP or later), Operating Systems and software by Apple (OS X Mavericks or later, iOS 7 or later), 360 Browser, Oracle Java JRE Family (Versions 7, 8, 11, 16 or later), Android Operating Systems (version 7.1 or later), Linux Operating Systems and software that uses Network Security Services (NSS) 3.13.2 or later. It is also pre-installed with distributions of Adobe products and Browsers based on Google Chromium, including Google Chrome.

You can read more for each program in the following links: