To securely issue a certificate only to an information processing apparatus having legitimate software while reducing a load on apparatus activation.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus that requests issuance of a certificate includes: acquisition means for acquiring an instruction for generating the certificate; measuring means for measuring a hash value of software of the information processing apparatus if an instruction to generate the certificate is received when starting the information processing apparatus; and request means for issuing the certificate to a server on the basis of the hash value.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
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