Verifiable Health Link
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Requirements: Request PKI material

Official URL: https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/VHL/Requirements/RequestPKIMaterial Version: 0.0.2-current
Active as of 2025-09-19 Computable Name: RequestPKIMaterial

A VHL Sharer or VHL Receiver, as a participant in the trust network, SHALL be capable of requesting public key infrastructure (PKI) material from a designated Trust Anchor.

The retrieved material MAY include:

  • Public key certificates and associated trust lists
  • Certificate revocation data (e.g., CRLs, OCSP responses)
  • Metadata used to:
    • Validate digital signatures on VHLs and related resources
    • Establish mutually authenticated TLS (mTLS) connections
    • Decrypt content protected via asymmetric encryption

Participants SHOULD cache the received trust list to reduce network and server load.

Preconditions:

  • The requesting participant knows in advance the endpoint from which to retrieve PKI material, as published or distributed by the Trust Anchor.

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