Policy Certification Authority

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Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.

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acronym: PCA
plural: Policy Certification Authorities
possessive: Policy Certification Authority's
pluralpossessive: Policy Certification Authorities'

Framework definitions

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NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →

§1: Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.

CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →

§1: Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.

Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →

§1 · legacy_primary: Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.
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