Peppol CIU

What is it? Peppol CIP?

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Short answer

Peppol CIU (P)ublic Key Infrastructure) is a digital certificate system that ensures that in the network Peppol only trustworthy, certified participants communicated, namely Access Points. It protects the transfer between Access Points (party identity, integrity and encryption), but does not verify the content of invoices or their accounting accuracy.

Certificates between APs

Not among people

The CIU shall verify the identity of Access Points, not natural persons.

Security of transmission

Encryption and integrity

CIP protects communication channel, not content XML.

No invoice signature

Different from the eIDAS signature

The electronic signature of the document is a separate mechanism.

Normal user does not see it

Infrastructure layer

CIP works at Access Points level, not billing software.

Conclusion

Peppol the CIU protects the transfer between Access Points identity and encryption; it is not directly related to the content of the invoice or its possible electronic signature under the eIDAS.

Not legal advice. Machine-translated answer, not yet manually reviewed. For the exact wording, see the Slovak original.