Deleting a CA

When deleting a certificate authority:

• All certificates issued for end-entities or other certificate authorities become unusable. Specifically, when deleting a root certificate authority, all its subordinate certificate authorities and all certificates issued by these subordinate certificate authorities become unusable.

• You must wait 24 hours before creating a CA with the same identifier. During these 24 hours, your number of active CAs will still include this CA.

ℹ For authorities created as explained in Creating a third-party Sectigo authority, this process removes the CA configuration from PKIaaS but certificates previously issued through Sectigo Certificate Manager remain managed by Sectigo.

See below for deleting a certificate authority.

To delete a certificate authority:

1. Follow the steps described in Accessing your partitions to log into the PKIaaS interface as a user with any of these roles:

   • Owners
   • CA Administrators
   • Certificate Administrators

2. Click Certificate Authorities in the sidebar.

   

3. In the Certificate Authorities tab, click the three dots (…) to the right of the certificate authority you want to delete.

4. Select Delete Certificate Authority.

5. Click Delete in the confirmation dialog.