Defence Root Certification Authority (DRCA) service
from UK Ministry of Defence		 tScheme  

Grant of Approval

tScheme Limited grants approval to the electronic trust service identified as:

Defence Root Certification Authority (DRCA) - The DRCA provides Trust Services for the Defence environment and is the ultimate trust point for the Defence PKI. It provides support to authentication, integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation services through the use of X.509 certificates.

as supplied by:
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Ministry of Defence,
MoD, Main Building, Whitehall, Horseguards Avenue, London, SW1A 2HB

The management system used to deliver this service is certified by:
LRQA - Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd.
of 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS

to satisfy the criteria defined in the following tScheme Approval Profiles:

Title Identity Issue
Base Approval Profile tSd0111 3.00
Approval Profile for a Certification Authority* tSd0102 3.01
Approval Profile for Signing Key Pair Management* tSd0103 3.02
Approval Profile for Certificate Generation* tSd0104 3.01
Approval Profile for Certificate Dissemination tSd0105 3.01
Approval Profile for Certificate Status Management tSd0106 3.01
Approval Profile for Certificate Status Validation tSd0107 3.01
Approval Profile for Registration Services tSd0042 3.02
  *not including Qualified Certificates    

 

This approval initially commenced on:

29th September, 2010

and annual renewal against the current issue of these Approval Profiles was confirmed in:

September 2015

Documents supporting this Grant, including a full description of the service, are available here: Supporting Documents

This Grant of Approval is issued by:

tScheme Limited
Mulberry Grove
PO Box 3653
WOKINGHAM
RG40 9NN
United Kingdom

Company Number 4000985

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