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FPKI Document Archive

An FPKI document may be needed for three years for compliance review purposes. This pages contains three years of FPKI documents, including:

  • Certificate Policies
  • Certificate Profiles
  • Supplementary Guidance
  • Change Proposals

A blank category indicates no updates in the previous three years. If you seek a document that is older than three years or is not listed here, please contact fpki at gsa.gov or look in the archived document repository on github.

Document Name Removal From Archive
Common Certificate Policy
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v2.3 04/17/2026
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v2.2 10/1/2025
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v2.1 12/15/2024
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v2.0 05/18/2024
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v1.32 09/01/2023
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v1.31 04/14/2023
X.509 Certificate Policy For The U.S. FPKI Common Policy Framework v1.30 02/08/2022
Common Change Proposal
Proposal 2023-02 | Updates Common Policy based on general comments received by the CPWG 04/17/2026
Proposal 2022-05 | Consolidated changes to the Common Policy Certificate and CRL Profiles 10/17/2025
Proposal 2022-01A | Updates to Archive Retention Period Section of Common Policy 10/1/2025
Proposal 2021-03 | Remove Exclusion of Containers from Common Policy 12/15/2024
Proposal 2021-02 | Updates to Audit and Archive Sections of Common Policy 12/15/2024
Proposal 2021-01 | FPKI Key Recovery Policy Integration into COMMON Policy 04/13/2024
Proposal 2020-02 | General Update to COMMON Policy and Profiles 08/29/2023
Proposal 2020-01 | PIV-I credentials issued under COMMON requirements 03/10/2023
Common Profile
Common Policy X.509 Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profiles v2.1 10/17/2025
X.509 Common Policy Certificate and Certificate Revocation List Profiles v2.0 09/01/2023
FPKI Trust Infrastructure Certificate Practice Statement
X.509 Certificate Practice Statement For the FPKI Trust Infrastructure v6.1 12/21/2025
X.509 Certificate Practice Statement For the FPKI Trust Infrastructure v6.0 05/14/2025
X.509 Certificate Practice Statement For the FPKI Trust Infrastructure v5.1 06/28/2024
FPKIMA Audit Letter
FPKIMA Audit Letter 2021 10/12/2025
Federal Bridge Certificate Policy
X.509 Certificate Policy For The Federal Bridge CA (FBCA) v3.0 04/17/2026
X.509 Certificate Policy For The Federal Bridge CA (FBCA) v2.36 11/04/2025
X.509 Certificate Policy For The Federal Bridge CA (FBCA) v2.35 06/17/2025
X.509 Certificate Policy For The Federal Bridge CA (FBCA) v2.34 04/15/2023
Federal Bridge Change Proposal
Proposal 2023-01 | Updates to the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA) Certificate Policy based on comments received by the CPWG 04/17/2026
Proposal 2022-04 | Consolidated update to the Federal Bridge Certification Authority Certificate Policy and associated profiles 11/04/2025
Proposal 2022-02 | PIV-I Topography Requirements in the Federal Bridge CA Certificate Policy 05/06/2025
Proposal 2019-01 | Allow Offline Federal Bridge Certification Authority 02/28/2022
Federal Bridge Profile
Federal Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) X.509 Certificate and CRL Extensions Profile v1.9 11/04/2025
Federal Public Trust TLS Certificate Policy
Federal Public Trust Device Certificate Policy v1.0 Final 02/06/2026
PIV-I Profile
X.509 PIV-I Certificate and Certificate Revocation List Profiles v1.3 11/04/2025
Supplementary Guidance
FPKI Annual Audit Review Guidelines v1.01 09/29/2024
Personal Identity Verification Interoperability for Issuers v2.0.1 05/01/2025
FBCA Supplementary Antecedent, In-Person Definition 06/01/2023
FPKI Annual Audit Review Guidelines v1.0 09/30/2024
NIST SP 800-53 Security Controls Overlay for PKI Systems v2.0 02/01/2024

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