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External Certification
Authority Program:
The 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 DoD PKI Program
Management Office (PMO) has designated the ECA External
Liaison Officer (ELO) as the single point of contact to
receive and coordinate all communications between the ECA
community, DoD programs, and the DoD PKI PMO.
ECA
vendors that have been approved:
ANNOUNCEMENT: The ECA Program is migrating to 2048 bit certificates
All ECA certificates issued after June 30, 2008 will have 2048 bit keys.
ANNOUNCEMENT: The ECA Program has defined a new Medium Token Assurance level.
Medium Token Assurance
is a Hardware based certificate. Identity proofing for
Medium Token certificates can be performed by a local Notary or an Authorized DoD Employee.
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