Public Key Infrastructure

To ensure a secure electronic communication for the E.ON Group, E.ON SE set up a Group-wide Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

Certificate policies supply information regarding applications where the issued certificates may be used. This should also determine the impact this shall have for the applicants and trusted parties.

You can find the current certification policy definitions for certificates used by the E.ON Group here:

Certification policy (CP) for E.ON SE PKI

Certification Practice Statement (CPS) for E.ON SE PKI

Obligation Policy for Certification policy for E.ON SE

Current encryption certificates of your E.ON contacts can be found in the Certificate Portal of the Teletrust EBCA at https://portal.ebca.de.

Technical questions related to usage of PKI technologies need to be clarified with the technical contacts in your organization.

For inquiries regarding certification policies or validity of certificates as well as electronic signatures from E.ON PKI, please contact pki@eon.com via E-mail.

This page covers user certificates issued by E.ON User PKI only. For all other kinds of certificates please follow the CP-Links contained in those certificates.

To enable sending encrypted e-mails to recipients within E.ON Group, the necessary "public keys" of the receivers are published in the certificate directory of the European Bridge-CA (EBCA): Open https://portal.ebca.de/

Please enter the e-mail adress of your E.ON contact into the search field as shown in the screenshot below (1) and press „Search“ (2).

If an encryption certificate is found, it is displayed.

Please use link (3) to download the certificate and install the downloaded file into the related contact.

For further information, please check FAQ document available on the portal page.

• For technical and operational questions of your E-mail program, please contact the IT Support of your own organization

• Basically, every employee of the E.ON Group, has the ability to send and receive encrypted E-mails

• For the ability of long-term access to encrypted content of information, which has been transmitted, is the responsibility of each communication partner. We recommend a safe storage/backup of encryption keys/certificates