The Residential Gateway poses numerous privacy challenges insofar as it involves a great increase in the amount of personal information exposed to a public network. In this short article we consider how PKI can be used to achieve security and privacy in the RG environment.We consider as well the example of PKI in e-government provision in the Netherlands and the implications this has for PKI in a Residential Gateway. KEYWORDS Residential Gateway, PKI, convergence, privacy, security.