
Ohne PIN können Sie sich nicht am ElsterOnline-Portal einloggen und auch nicht auf Ihr Postfach zugreifen. PIN steht für persönliche Identifikationsnummer und kann daher nur Ihnen persönlich bekannt sein. Your certificate will be valid for exactly 3 years, after that you will have to again go through the whole process and get a new one. pfx file (which is your ELSTER digital certificate) from that default location onto a USB stick and ideally into the same location on your new computer. If you want to change computers, copy that.



You will now get a page telling you that the activation was successful: On the next page you will have to enter your address.Īs if they didn't already have it, if they hadn't you would never have received that letter with the Aktivierungs-Code to get this far in the activation process. On the next page, you have to confirm that you want them to save the certificate to a default place on your PC and you will have to define a PIN (= password) that you will use from now on (so write it down somewhere so that you don't forget it!).Įnter the Aktivierungs-Code again (quite redundant, but if they want it.):
