diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index cf317ff..8228ad0 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ tokio = { version = "1.27.0", features = ["time"] }
 toml = "0.7.3"
 url = { version = "2.3.1", features = ["serde"] }
 zbase32 = "0.1.2"
+sequoia-policy-config = { version = "0.6" }
diff --git a/backend/src/settings.rs b/backend/src/settings.rs
index 3b330f1..8ec2473 100644
--- a/backend/src/settings.rs
+++ b/backend/src/settings.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use lettre::{transport::smtp::authentication::Credentials, AsyncSmtpTransport, T
 use log::{debug, error};
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use sequoia_openpgp::policy::StandardPolicy;
+use sequoia_policy_config::ConfiguredStandardPolicy;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use url::Url;
@@ -93,8 +94,19 @@ fn get_mailer() -> AsyncSmtpTransport<Tokio1Executor> {
     .build()
 }
 
+fn get_policy<'a>() -> StandardPolicy<'a>  {
+        let mut p = ConfiguredStandardPolicy::new();
+
+        match p.parse_default_config() {
+                Ok(_) => {},
+                Err(e) => error!("{e}"),
+        }
+
+        p.build()
+}
+
 pub const ERROR_TEXT: &str = "An error occoured:";
-pub const POLICY: &StandardPolicy = &StandardPolicy::new();
+pub static POLICY: Lazy<StandardPolicy> = Lazy::new(get_policy);
 pub const ROOT_FOLDER: &str = "data";
 pub static SETTINGS: Lazy<Settings> = Lazy::new(get_settings);
 pub static MAILER: Lazy<AsyncSmtpTransport<Tokio1Executor>> = Lazy::new(get_mailer);
diff --git a/backend/src/utils.rs b/backend/src/utils.rs
index 9a8f94e..cd2238a 100644
--- a/backend/src/utils.rs
+++ b/backend/src/utils.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use crate::log_err;
 use crate::settings::Variant;
 use crate::settings::ROOT_FOLDER;
 use crate::settings::SETTINGS;
+use crate::settings::POLICY;
 
 use actix_web::ResponseError;
 use actix_web::{
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 pub fn validate_cert(cert: &Cert) -> Result<ValidCert> {
-    let validcert = match log_err!(cert.with_policy(crate::settings::POLICY, None), debug) {
+    let validcert = match log_err!(cert.with_policy(&*POLICY, None), debug) {
         Ok(validcert) => validcert,
         Err(_) => Err(SpecialErrors::InvalidCert)?,
     };