Certificates can have a number of different settings:
The status of each certificate can vary.
In addition to the above, a certificate may also be:
In addition to selecting the statuses above, other actions can also be performed on certificates:
• Renew - extends a certificate's expiry date and can bring an expired certificate back into validity (from its original start date).
• Issue superseding - issues a new certificate based on the current certificate. Unlike renewing, this action creates a new certificate (and hence a new certificate id number and bespoke id number where applicable.
• Up/downgrade - if the certification scheme is part of a group, this action issues a new certificate selected from the group based on setting rules.
Issuers of certificates can suspend, re-activate, revoke, renew, re-issue, upgrade or downgrade certificates. Recipients of certificates can set them to public, private or archived.
An audit trail is maintained for each certificate from the time it is created and issued. This shows the date and time of any change of status of a certificate.
The visibility settings of a certificate's audit trail are the same as those of the certificate, so public certificates have a publicly viewable audit log. However, some information (for example the user who changed the status or edited certificate information) remains private to the issuer. A small privacy icon is shown for these cases.