Issue your own Certificate

Overview

⚠ Please contact Blockpass to discuss your Certificate issuing requirements. This functionality need to be enabled for your Serivce(s).

Your certificate is issued to the candidates you approve for on-boarding.

It can include custom fields and the certificate becomes part of the individual candidates Identity.

The values of the custom fields can be static, calculated, or entered by your KYC operators.

Certificate Signing Keys

You will need a key-pair for certifciate signing, and configure these up in both the Dashboard Server and the Admin Console.

Key format

• Public Certificate Verification Key ?

  A Base58 Public Key in Bitcoin Address Format.

  e.g. 1Kv3UcypxxxxxxxxxxF7FWFDYu81mXEGp5

• Private Certificate Signing Key ?

  A Base58 Private Key in Bitcoin WIF Compressed format.

  e.g. Kzv7Yu5TKaixxxxxxxxxxR9oRYgVnDeUJMCvKW8pzLRS9CsMnMnB

Key generation

• Using your own Bitcoin or other tool you already use to generate the Private key and Compressed Bitcoin Address

• Using a tool such as BitAddress
  We recommend use of an offline version following as described here)

• Using OpenSSL to generate the key pair and an online tool to get the Bitcoin Compressed Address form. See the Crypto-Keys Script.