EJBCA (formerly: ''Enterprise JavaBeans Certificate Authority'') is a
free software public key infrastructure
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facilit ...
(PKI)
certificate authority software package maintained and sponsored by the
Swedish
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for-profit company PrimeKey Solutions AB, which holds the
copyright to most of the codebase. The project's
source code is available under the terms of the
Lesser GNU General Public License
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(LGPL). The EJBCA software package is used to install a privately operated
certificate authority. This is in contrast to commercial certificate authorities that are operated by a
trusted third party. Since its inception EJBCA has been used as certificate authority software for different use cases, including eGovernment, endpoint management, research, energy,
eIDAS, telecom, networking, and for usage in
SMEs
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See also
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Public key infrastructure
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption. The purpose of a PKI is to facilit ...
References
Further reading
* ''Research and application of EJBCA based on J2EE''; Liyi Zhang, Qihua Liu and Min Xu; IFIP International Federation for Information Processing Volume 251/2008;
External links
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Public key infrastructure
Cryptographic software
Free security software
Software using the LGPL license
Products introduced in 2001
Java enterprise platform
Java platform software