Certicom supplies device certificates and lifecycle services through a BlackBerry subsidiary. Certificate-signing requests connect to device key stores, while hosted services protect sensitive material with HSMs. Buyers need to select certificate profiles, registration authority, key ownership and renewal responsibilities for their deployment.
Certicom, a BlackBerry subsidiary, offers hosted or on-premises device certificate issuance, renewal and lifecycle management. Its PKI supports standard or custom X.509 profiles and ECQV options. Registration and key-store interfaces connect provisioning to the customer's device lifecycle.
Technical detail
Core features
Certificate issuance, renewal and lifecycle services support standard or custom X.509 profiles and ECQV options.
A registration authority accepts certificate-signing requests singly or in batches and integrates TPM, TrustZone, IC key stores or software keystores for enrolment.
Hosted PKI uses hardware security modules to protect sensitive material. Registration-authority vetting may operate at the customer, on-premises, hosted or manufacturing-line interface.
Device PKI
Certificate lifecycle management
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Provisioning and renewal of device identities across manufacturing and operational lifecycles.
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
Current supplier PKI and managed-certificate offerings through Certicom Corp., a BlackBerry subsidiary. Named buyer acceptance, throughput and Canadian deployment scope remain to be confirmed.
Commercial availability
Hosted or on-premises PKI and managed-certificate service; certificate profiles, enrolment, trust model and protected key storage require customer-specific design.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
Reviewed connections
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
Original sources 2 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
