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EJBCA: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

EJBCA is an open-source public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificate authority platform for issuing, managing and revoking digital certificates, for example for TLS, client authentication, code signing and IoT devices. The Community Edition is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 and is available as source code and as container images; an Enterprise edition adds commercial features. It is aimed at system administrators and security teams that run their own certificate authority, including trust service providers. The project was first released in 2001.

The software is maintained by PrimeKey Solutions AB, a Swedish company, which has been part of Keyfactor since June 2021. Keyfactor, Inc. is a US company and is the owner of PrimeKey, so ownership is non-European, even though the code is open source and runs on the customer's own infrastructure. The website does not describe a hosted service for the Community Edition, so data stays on the systems the organisation operates. For a European organisation, the LGPL licence allows audit, modification and self-hosting, while the commercial Enterprise edition is supplied under a separate agreement.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026
Headquarters
SE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
USVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
E-signatures
Type
Product
Website
ejbca.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to EJBCA

The European alternatives to EJBCA come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with EJBCA

EJBCA is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so EJBCA scores best on data residency.

EJBCA is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs EJBCA together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to EJBCA?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to EJBCA include A-Trust, Agrello and ANF AC. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to EJBCA?

Our list of EU alternatives to EJBCA is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is EJBCA GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

EJBCA is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes EJBCA an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in E-signatures

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