The DS Certificate are issued by CSCA certificate to generate digital signatures in order to ensure integrity of data on E-Passport. DS Certificates can be imported to NPKD Service either manually by an operator or downloaded from ICAO PKD. 

Clicking on DS Certificates inside Manage Certificates will lead us to the screen below: 

The configuration of the items are as follows: 

Items

Description

Subject DN

Subject DN displays the the identifying information of the DS Certificate that are part of certificate itself. 

Issuer DN

Issuer DN displays the identifying information of the CSCA that has issued the DS certificate.

Valid From

This field displays the issuance date and time of the DS certificate

Valid To

This field displays the expiry date and time of the DS certificate.

Country

This field displays the country for which the DS Certificate has been issued.

Source

This field displays the source from where the DS Certificates has been imported. We can import a certificate by either: 

  • Manual: The certificate is imported manually from the file system by clicking on 'Import DS Certificate' button.
  • ICAO PKD: The certificate is downloaded from ICAO PKD and stored in database of NPKD Service.

Status

This field displays the current status of the certificate that can be either 'Valid or 'Invalid'.

Import DS Certificates

This button allows the operator to import a DS Certificate locally from the system. Clicking on this button will lead the operator to the new screen. 

View Details

By clicking on this button, a new screen showing the details of the selected certificate will be displayed. 

Publish to ICAO

By clicking on this button, the selected DS Certificate will be published to ICAO PKD.

Delete

By clicking on this button, the selected DS Certificate will be removed. 


The DS Certificate can be imported locally from the file system in the form of ZIP file of LDIF file. Clicking on the 'Import DS Certificate' will lead you to the following screen: 



The operator can also see the details of the certificate like when and from where it was imported to NPKD etc. Clicking on the 'View Details' will lead you to the following screen: 



Clicking on the 'Search' button will display the following screen:



A particular DS Certificate can be searched based on Status, Subject DN, Issuer DN, Valid From, Valid To, Country and Source. If a search is based on multiple values, then these will be combined together using the “AND” operand, and thus only records that meet all the criteria will be presented.

If "_" character is used in the search then it will act as wildcard.


See also

CSCA Certificates