Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials

This recommendation provides technical guidelines for the implementation of standards-based, secure, reliable credentials that are issued by federal departments and agencies to individuals who possess and prove control of their valid PIV Card. These credentials can be either public key infrastructure (PKI)-based like the PIV Card or non PKI-based but verified by the individual's home agency. The scope of this document includes requirements for the initial issuance and maintenance of these credentials, certificate policies as applicable, cryptographic specifications, technical specifications for permitted authenticator types, and the command interfaces for removable implementations of such PKI-based credentials.