Issue PIV-I Compliant Cards

To support PIV Personal Identity Verification (technical standard of "HSPD-12") for Non-Federal Issuers (also known as PIV-Interoperable or PIV-I standard), ActivID CMS enables the issuance of cards in either a PIV-compliant mode or a PIV-I-compliant mode.

The following steps are a summary of the actions you must perform when issuing PIV-I cards.

  1. Configure the PIV certificate templates in your CA The Certificate Authority (CA) issues and manages security credentials and public keys for message encryption in a networks environment. with the proper Subject and Policy OIDs for PKI certificates.

  2. Make sure the mandatory applications have been added and configured in the device policy you are using, in accordance with the PIV-I standard

  3. Set CPR The Card Production Request (CPR) contains a list of user-specific attributes that will be stored, fully or partially, in the PIV Metadata database, and will be loaded on the PIV card during the issuance. attributes to be PIV-compliant

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