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Certificate & Connectivity Top CPARS Questions

What Certificates are accepted?

Answer:

Contractors should purchase the certificate that meets their needs for doing business with the DoD. The ECA Medium Assurance Identity and Encryption Certificate is a software based certificate that will provide contractors with access to DoD sites. Medium assurance (software) certificates are acceptable for use within the DoD.

Approved ECA Vendors:

Operational Research Consultants, Inc. (ORC) http://www.orc.com
IdenTrust http://www.identrust.com/certificates/eca/index.html

Only certificates provided by the approved ECA vendors will be authenticated by the system.

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