- Grounds the general TSP policy framework referenced by EN 319 411-1 for practice statements and trust-service governance.
"General Policy requirements for Trust Service Providers"
A clause-oriented map for certificate-service teams implementing ETSI EN 319 411-1 policies, CP/CPS commitments, registration, revocation, status services, and CA key controls.
Use it to structure implementation evidence for public-key certificate services. It does not supersede the ETSI standard or a conformity assessment.
Structured answer sets in this page tree.
Cited legal and guidance references.
ETSI EN 319 411-1 V1.5.1 defines general policy and security requirements for Trust Service Providers issuing public-key certificates, including trusted website certificates. Use this page to turn the standard into an implementation map: identify the certificate policy profile, link each service component to CP/CPS text, and collect evidence for registration, issuance, revocation, status services, repositories, subscriber terms, and CA key management.
The first mapping decision is the certificate policy profile. EN 319 411-1 distinguishes requirements that apply to any Certificate Policy (CP), conditional requirements, choice-based requirements, and profile-marked requirements for LCP, NCP, NCP+, EVCP, OVCP, IVCP, and DVCP. A requirements register that ignores those markings will overstate some duties and miss others.
For TLS/SSL website certificates, keep a separate bridge for CA/Browser Forum dependencies. EN 319 411-1 includes DVCP, OVCP, IVCP, and EVCP profiles that build on ETSI policies and refer to BRG or EVCG requirements. The ETSI map should identify those dependencies without pretending to restate the current CA/B Forum text.
EN 319 411-1 uses the CP/CPS split as the backbone of the certificate-service requirements map. The CP says what rule set and certificate quality apply; the CPS says how the TSP operates the service to meet that policy. The requirements file should therefore link each operational control back to the CP and CPS clause that makes it auditable.
The CPS map should cover signature algorithms and parameters, certificate profiles, public online CPS disclosure, sensitive-information exclusions, and any BRG or EVCG monitoring obligations for public TLS/SSL profiles. Internal runbooks can support the CPS, but the public artifact should not expose private procedure names or confidential operational details.
Clause 4.3 classifies certification services into registration, certificate generation, dissemination, revocation management, revocation status, and optional subject device provisioning. Use those components as the first column of the requirements map, then attach the applicable clause 5, clause 6, and clause 7 rows.
The map should make subscriber and subject evidence explicit. EN 319 411-1 requires terms and conditions before the contractual relationship, durable human-readable communication, recorded acceptance, and traceable ratification where the subscriber and subject relationship requires it. These records are not generic audit artifacts; they prove the certificate acceptance and usage obligations.
CA key-management rows need more than a policy citation. EN 319 411-1 requires secure generation of CA keys, including keys used by revocation and registration services; physically secured environments; trusted-role participation; at least dual control for certificate-signing key creation; ceremony procedures; and a report proving the ceremony followed the stated procedure.
The same map should cover secure cryptographic devices, key backup and recovery, device certification or equivalent assurance, lifecycle end, and activation data controls. For subject keys generated by the CA, add rows for algorithm fitness, secure storage before delivery, protected delivery, deletion after delivery where required, and revocation if unauthorized disclosure is discovered.
If a TSP defines a CP other than the clause 5 policies, clause 7 changes the requirements map. The CP must identify the EN 319 411-1 policy it adopts as a basis, state variances, have an approving authority such as a policy management authority, use a risk assessment for the stated community and applicability, and maintain a review process showing the CP is supported by the CA's CPS.
Disclosure belongs in the same map. Annex A's PKI disclosure statement model does not supersede the CP or CPS, but it shows what relying parties and subscribers need in plain language: TSP contact information, certificate type and validation procedures, usage limits, subscriber obligations, status-checking obligations, liability limits, applicable agreements, and audit or trust-list references where applicable.
Use this EN 319 411-1 requirements map to assign certificate-policy, registration, revocation, status-service, and CA key-management evidence.
Convert EN 319 411-1 requirement rows into accountable tasks, evidence requests, and assessment milestones.
Use cited ETSI source material to resolve CP/CPS, certificate-profile, revocation, and key-management questions before implementation.
Review certificate-service scope, CP/CPS evidence, owners, and the next implementation actions with Sorena.
"General Policy requirements for Trust Service Providers"
"Framework for the definition of other certificate policies"