certifikatlager

Certifikatlager is a term used to describe a central repository or storage facility for certificates, and it can refer to two related contexts: physical certificate records in financial markets and digital certificate stores in information technology. In a financial setting, certifikatlager denotes a central depository and custodian responsible for holding and registering ownership of physical or dematerialized securities certificates. The goal is to ensure proper ownership, enable transfers, support dematerialization, and reduce settlement risk. Such repositories typically operate under regulatory oversight and interact with central securities depositories, custodians, and registrars to manage issuance, transfer, and safekeeping.

In information technology, certifikatlager commonly refers to a certificate store or repository for digital certificates and private keys. These stores are used by operating systems, browsers, and applications to verify identities, establish secure communications, sign data, and enable encrypted connections. A certificate store may include trust stores (root and intermediate certificates) and personal or device stores (user or application certificates and keys). Management practices cover certificate issuance, storage, backup, rotation, and revocation handling through mechanisms like certificate revocation lists (CRLs) and OCSP.

Security and governance are central to certifikatlager: access controls, encryption at rest, key management, auditing, and defined lifecycle processes to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The term thus encompasses both financial custodianship of certificates and the technical management of digital identities in PKI environments. See also central securities depository, PKI, X.509, certificate authority.