Abstract: The invention enables the certification of a measurement result of a measuring device. A measuring device arranged in connection with a data security module according to the invention takes under processing a measurement result produced using a measuring instrument of the measuring device (501). The measuring device associates a digital calibration certificate associated with a public key corresponding to a secret key stored in a key storage with the measurement result taken under processing (502). The measuring device digitally signs the associated measurement result using a signing function of the data security module and the secret key stored in the key storage (503).