ANNEX I CU.K.Requirements for construction, testing, installation, and inspection
Appendix 11
COMMON SECURITY MECHANISMS U.K.
PART BU.K. SECOND-GENERATION TACHOGRAPH SYSTEM
9.KEYS AND CERTIFICATESU.K.
9.1. Asymmetric Key Pairs and Public Key Certificates U.K.
9.1.2 European Level U.K.
[CSM_58 Whenever it generates a new European root key pair, the ERCA shall create a link certificate for the new European public key and sign it with the previous European private key. The validity period of the link certificate shall be 17 years plus 3 months. This is shown in Figure 1 in section 9.1.7 as well.] U.K.
Note: Since a link certificate contains the ERCA generation X public key and is signed with the ERCA generation X-1 private key, a link certificate offers equipment issued under generation X-1 a method to trust equipment issued under generation X.U.K.