SC-17 Public Key Infrastructure Certificates

a. Issue public key certificates under an sc-17_odp or obtain public key certificates from an approved service provider; and

b. Include only approved trust anchors in trust stores or certificate stores managed by the organization.

Parameter ID Definition
sc-17_odp certificate policy

Baselines

Guidance

Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are certificates with visibility external to organizational systems and certificates related to the internal operations of systems, such as application-specific time services. In cryptographic systems with a hierarchical structure, a trust anchor is an authoritative source (i.e., a certificate authority) for which trust is assumed and not derived. A root certificate for a PKI system is an example of a trust anchor. A trust store or certificate store maintains a list of trusted root certificates.

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