PKI / Certificate Authority Adapter — Adapter Technical Specification

Canon-derived document

Status: reserved · Class: conformance · Mission: telemetry · Phase: phase-planning

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Overview

TODO — Author an overview of the PKI / Certificate Authority Adapter adapter’s role in the UIAO governance perimeter. Do not contradict canon. Cross-reference the companion AVS document where relevant.

Scope

Target surfaces / subsystems: piv-certificates, tls-certificates, ocsp-responses, crl-distribution

TODO — Expand scope with concrete boundaries: what the adapter reads, what it emits, what it explicitly does not touch.

Controls

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls this adapter supports: IA-5, SC-12, SC-13

TODO — For each control, state the adapter’s role (primary, supporting, evidence-only). If a control is aspirational, flag as NEW (Proposed) per No-Hallucination Protocol.

Operational profile

Field	Value
Runtime	`python-3.12`
Runtime pin	`TBD`
Runner class	`github-hosted`
Tenancy	`per-customer`
Evidence class	`interval`
Retention	`3` year(s)

Canon invariants

gcc-boundary: gcc-moderate
ssot-mutation: never
certificate-anchored: true
object-identity-only: true

Notes from canon

FIMF Tier 5 conformance adapter. Observes certificate state via OCSP, CRL, and PKI APIs. Critical for the certificate- anchored provenance model.

References

UIAO-CANON-003

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