CertificateEntryä

CertificateEntryä is a term used in some Nordic and Nordic-adjacent software contexts to denote a single certificate entry stored in a certificate repository, keystore, or trust store. It is not part of an official international standard, but it is employed in documentation and code to refer to an item that bundles a public certificate with its related metadata and management properties.

A CertificateEntryä typically includes a core certificate along with descriptive and administrative fields. Common data elements are an identifier or fingerprint, an alias or label, the certificate data itself (encoded in PEM or DER), subject and issuer names, serial number, and the validity period (notBefore and notAfter). Additional metadata may cover key usage and extended key usage, basic constraints, and the certificate’s revocation status (for example, valid, revoked, with revocation information such as CRL or OCSP URL). Management fields often include creation and last-modified dates, owner or application association, purpose, and location within the repository.

Lifecycle and usage involve importing, validating, renewing, revoking, and exporting entries, as well as using them in certificate path validation and trust decisions. In practice, CertificateEntryä items are secured with access controls and integrity protections, and they may be integrated with broader PKI processes such as policy enforcement, auditing, and automated rotation.

Relation to standards is contextual: while the contained certificate data adheres to X.509 formats and related PKI conventions, the label “CertificateEntryä” itself is a naming convention rather than a formal standard. Related concepts include CertificateEntry in various libraries, trust anchors, and keystore entries.