Features
- While-you-wait issuance of 1 year or a 3 year medium-hardware certificate identity/encryption certificates is available at ORC offices in Virginia. Only available in VA at this time.
- If you bring the necessary documents, you leave with fully functional certificates on either a smartcard or cryptographic token and card reader software.
- Allows access to NSA ARC Net, GSA eOffer/eMod, and all DoD sites that accept ECA, including CPARS, SPOT, JPAS, FEDMALL, COINS, Deckplate, NGA, and Navy Data Environment (NDE).
- The highest assurance level ECA certificates—Equivalent to the certificates on the DOD CAC.
- An ECA certificate pair is used for:
- Identity Certificate: accessing websites and digitally signing emails.
- Encryption Certificate: exchanging encrypted emails.
See our pricing page for details about the required hardware and software, which can be picked up at your appointment.
Note: The issuance of ORC ECA Medium Hardware Assurance certificates requires that the certificate keys be generated in front of a duly designated ORC representative, such as a Registration Authority (RA) or Local Registration Authority (LRA). This will require that you do one of the following:
- Come to an ORC facility (located in Fairfax, Virginia) to create the certificate requests in the presence of an RA.
- Your company may also designate employees to be trained as duly designated ORC representative (LRAs) and perform this function at your facilities.
If you are in the presence of a duly designated ORC representative, such as a Registration Authority (RA) or a Local Registration Authority (LRA), you may make your certificate request now.
Steps to obtain your Medium-Hardware Assurance certificates
- Step 1: Read the requirements.
- Step 2: Gather the required documents.
- Step 3: Trust the CAs.
- Step 4: In the presence of an LRA, fill out and print the online request forms.
- Step 5: Verify your enrollment keys.
- Step 6: The LRA will process the printed request forms (with the required documents) and request issuance. ORC will email you when your certificates have been issued.