S-63 DIGITAL CERTIFICATES NOTES |
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| Digital Certificates are files that bind a specific public key together with other information, to an individual
or organisation. The S-63 standard uses a 2-level chain of certificates to operate the data protection scheme. |
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| The IHB operates as the Scheme Administrator (SA) and has issued the root Digital Certificate for use within the protection scheme.
The SA certificate used by IHB is a self-signed certificate. It is available both as a X-509 compliant file IHO.CRT and as a text file (Scheme Administrator Public Key.txt). Both
files are contained in an SA Certificate compressed file. The existing IHO Certificate is due to expire in August
2013. A new IHO Certificate has been generated with an expiry date in 2033. The new certificate has the same fields and details and the IHO public key
remains the same. Please see the explanatory letter to OEM and Data Servers. |
IHO Certificate
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The S-63 protection scheme requires the SA public key to be installed on end user systems by all users of the protection scheme. The installation of the SA certificate (and the public key held within) should be carried out as a separate, independent operation and should be subject to carefully controlled operating procedures. |
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