Federal Public Key Infrastructure Management Authority (FPKIMA)
The Federal Public Key Infrastructure Management Authority (FPKIMA) provides trust infrastructure services to federal agencies. FPKIMA is governed under the Federal PKI Policy Authority (FPKIPA) and managed by GSA.
Activities
- Manage digital certificate policies and standards to ensure secure physical and logical access, document sharing, and communications across federal agencies and between external business partners.
- Operate the Federal PKI Trust Infrastructure, which consists of three main certification authorities (CA):
- Federal Common Policy CA (FCPCA) is the trust anchor for the Federal Government. Authorized CAs issue certificates for exclusive use by the Federal Government for federal employees and contractors, to include the PKI certificates on the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential.
- Federal Bridge CA (FBCA) is the PKI Bridge that enables interoperability between and among federally operated and business partner PKIs.
- SHA1 Federal Root CA (SHA1 FRCA) supports federal legacy PKI that requires the deprecated SHA1 signature hash for certificates.
Newsletters
- FPKIMA Newsletter Winter 2018 – Volume 6, Issue 2 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Fall 2018 – Volume 6, Issue 1 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Summer 2018 – Volume 5, Issue 4 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Spring 2018 – Volume 5, Issue 3 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Winter 2017 – Volume 5, Issue 2 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Fall 2017 – Volume 5, Issue 1 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Winter 2017 – Volume 4, Issue 2 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Fall 2016 – Volume 3, Issue 3 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Spring 2016 – Volume 3, Issue 2 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Winter 2016 – Volume 3, Issue 1 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Spring 2015 – Volume 2, Issue 2 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Winter 2015 – Volume 2, Issue 1 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Fall 2014 – Volume 1, Issue 2 (PDF)
- FPKIMA Newsletter Summer 2014 – Volume 1, Issue 1 (PDF)
Related Info
- FPKI Trust Infrastructure Overview (PDF)
- FPKI Trust Store Management Guide (PDF, September 2015)
- FPKICertification Authorities Audit Information
- Certification Practice Statement (CPS) for the FPKI Trust Infrastructure (PDF, December 2018) – Redacted Version 4.11
- FPKI Trust Infrastructure “HTTP.FPKI.Gov” URL Site Map (PDF, September 2018)
- FPKI Technical Working Group
- FPKI Community Interoperability Test Environment (CITE) Participation Guide (PDF, May 2018) – Version 1.0.5
Contact Us
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Page Reviewed/Updated: September 25, 2019