Certificate Issuer (CI)

A certificate issuer, or certificate authority, is a trusted body that signs digital certificates confirming that a public key belongs to a named party.

What is Certificate Issuer (CI)?

In the GSMA eSIM system, the CI is the root of trust whose certificate is pre-loaded on every eUICC, allowing it to verify SM-DP+ servers and vice versa.

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