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The United States Department of Defense Certificate Policy (CP) is the unified policy under which a Certification Authority (CA) operated by a DoD component is established and operates. This document defines the creation and management of Version 3 X.509 public key certificates for use in applications requiring communication between networked computer-based systems.

The S-Interoperability Certificate Policy outlines the policy for the secret level multi-domain Public Key Infrastructure created by the S-Interop Root CA and defines the procedures for the approval and issuance of cross-certificates to member Certification Authorities.

This Certificate Policy (CP) governs the operation of the ECA Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), consisting of products and services that provide and manage X.509 certificates for public-key cryptography. The United States (US) DoD has established the External Certification Authority (ECA) program to support the issuance of DoD-approved certificates to industry partners and other external entities and organizations. The ECA program is designed to provide the mechanism for these entities to securely communicate with the DoD and authenticate to DoD Information Systems.

The purpose of this document is to describe the security and authentication requirements to implement key recovery operation for the External Certificate Authorities (ECAs).

The Committee on National Security Systems Instruction (CNSSI) No. 1300, "Instruction for National Security Systems (NSS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) X.509 Certificate Policy, Under CNSS Policy No. 25," states the requirements for issuing and managing certificates that Relying Parties can use in making decisions regarding what assurance they can place in a certificate issued by a NSS PKI CA.