EJBCA (formerly: ''Enterprise JavaBeans Certificate Authority'') is a

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public key infrastructure (PKI)

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software package maintained and sponsored by the

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for-profit company PrimeKey Solutions AB, which holds the

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to most of the codebase. The project's

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is available under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License (LGPL). The EJBCA software package is used to install a privately operated

. This is in contrast to commercial certificate authorities that are operated by a

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. Since its inception EJBCA has been used as certificate authority software for different use cases, including eGovernment, endpoint management, research, energy,

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, telecom, networking, and for usage in SMEs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ejbca Public key infrastructure Cryptographic software Free security software Software using the LGPL license Products introduced in 2001 Java enterprise platform Java platform software

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