Main Categories

The present document specifies technical requirements and corresponding assessment criteria for public key
infrastructure and digital certificate issuance software related to cybersecurity. The products with digital elements in
scope, thereafter "the Products":
• are specified within the "technical description" of the "category of product" number "9" by the Commission
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2392 [i.2] as:
"Products with digital elements used as part of a public key infrastructure (PKI) that manage the validation,
creation, issuance, distribution, status publication, renewal or revocation of digital certificates, or the
generation, storage, escrow, exchange, destruction or rotation of cryptographic keys associated with such
digital certificates. This category includes but is not limited to key management systems, digital certificate
management systems, online certificate status protocol responders and all-in-one PKI solutions".
• are only covered within the product context described in clause 4.
The present document covers those Products to demonstrate compliance with essential cybersecurity requirements in
the Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 [i.1] Annex I Part I under the conditions identified in annex A.
Different use cases representing different product architecture are presented in clause 4.6. Requirements applicability in
clause 5 then defines which requirements apply to which use case to ensure compliance with the CRA's essential
cybersecurity requirements.