BBCA | Services

Central Bank's Initiative
Towards Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
for Financial Sector

The CA of BB (namely BBCA) is one of the licensed CAs whose public key is signed by the Root CA of Bangladesh operated by Office of the CCA. As one of the licensed CAs under Office of the CCA, BBCA provides 3 classes of certificates for end users as per the CPS Guideline issued by Office of the CCA. Those are:

Class 1 Certificate

Class 1 certificates are issued to individuals/private subscribers. These certificates will confirm that user's name (or alias) and E-mail address form an unambiguous subject within the Certifying Authorities database. The assurance level of this type of certificate is low.

Class 2 Certificate

Class 2 certificates have two categories namely individual and organization. These certificates are issued for both business personnel and private individuals use. The assurance level of this kind of certificate is medium and appropriate for e-governance and other electronic transactions. These certificates will confirm that the information in the application provided by the subscriber does not conflict with the information in well-recognized consumer databases such as national id database, passport database etc. BBCA primarily checks with national id database and collects appropriate documents before issuing this kind of certificates to individuals.

BBCA verifies appropriate documents such as TIN/VAT certificate, trade certificate, certificate of incorporation, AoA & MoA of the company in case of organization certificate. In case of GoB organizations, letter from appropriate authorities is required before request for an organization certificate.

Class 3 Certificate

Class 3 certificates are issued to individuals as well as organizations. As these are high assurance certificates, primarily intended for e-commerce applications, these shall be issued to individuals only (nominated by organization) on their personal (physical) appearance before the Certifying Authorities with appropriate documents. Examples of Class 3 certificates are SSL certificate, device certificate, VPN certificates, code signing certificates etc.