Improvements on the CEF eDelivery PKI service
European Commission, 2017
The CEF eDelivery Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) service has now an improved process to manage the roles, policies, procedures and systems needed to create, manage, distribute, store and revoke digital certificates. This was achieved by updating the Global Terms and Conditions of the CEF eDelivery PKI service. The CEF eDelivery team is currently contacting the policy domain owners using this service in order to process any changes needed to follow the necessary procedures.
The CEF eDelivery Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) service enables issuance and management of the digital certificates used in the CEF eDelivery components (e.g. between CEF eDelivery Access Points (AP) and Service Metadata Publishers (SMP) to ensure confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation of the data moving across systems). This service is provided to policy domains (European institutions, other public administrations and businesses) interested in creating a trust circle for information exchange using the technical specifications and components of CEF eDelivery. The certificates can be used to authenticate the origin of data, encrypt data and ensure detection of integrity breaches of data.
The CEF eDelivery PKI has been designed to generate a list of benefits to the users of the service:
- A user friendly interface to request and manage digital certificates;
- Well established processes and procedures supported by the CEF eDelivery Support office;
- Digital certificates issued by a trusted Certification Authority;
- Free-of-charge PKI service (with limitations) under the terms and conditions of CEF eDelivery for eligible stakeholders only.