A CKMS component that performs one or more of the following functions: The acquisition or generation of public key certificates, The initial establishment of keying materials (including its generation and distribution), The maintenance of a database that maps end entities to an organization's certificate/key structure, Key backup, archiving, inventory or recovery, The maintenance and distribution of key compromise lists and/or certificate revocation lists (i.e., Revoked Key Notifications), and The generation of audit requests and the processing of audit responses as necessary for the prevention of undetected compromises.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 Rev.1 under Key processing facility

  The Key Processing Facility is a KMI component that performs one or more of the following functions: • Acquisition or generation of public key certificates, • Initial generation and distribution of keying material, • Maintenance of a database that maps user entities to an organization’s certificate/key structure, • Maintenance and distribution of nodal key compromise lists and/or certificate revocation lists, and • Generation of audit requests and the processing audit responses as necessary for the prevention of undetected compromises.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 [Superseded] under Key processing facility