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A simpler, alternative format to PKCS #12 is PEM which just lists the certificates and possibly private keys as Base 64 strings in a text file. GnuTLS's certtool may also be used to create PKCS #12 files including certificates, keys, and CA certificates via --to-p12.
PKCS #7 files may be stored both as raw DER format or as PEM format. PEM format is the same as DER format but wrapped inside Base64 encoding and sandwiched in between ‑‑‑‑‑BEGIN PKCS7‑‑‑‑‑ and ‑‑‑‑‑END PKCS7‑‑‑‑‑. Windows uses the .p7b file name extension [6] for both these encodings.
PEM encoded X.509 PKCS#1 DSA private key 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 52 45 41 20 50 52 49 56 41 54 45 20 4B 45 59 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----0 key pem PEM encoded X.509 PKCS#1 RSA private key 50 75 54 54 59 2D 55 73 65 72 2D 4B 65 79 2D 46 69 6C 65 2D 32 3A: PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: 0 ppk PuTTY private key file version 2
PKCS #8 is one of the family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) created by RSA Laboratories. The latest version, 1.2, is available as RFC 5208. [1] The PKCS #8 private key may be encrypted with a passphrase using one of the PKCS #5 standards defined in RFC 2898, [2] which supports multiple encryption schemes.
The first part contains as its most significant information the public key and the identity of the applicant. The self-signature by the applicant provides a proof of possession (POP). Checking the POP prevents an entity from requesting a bogus certificate of someone else's public key. [3] Thus the private key is required to produce a PKCS #10 ...
All public key / private key cryptosystems depend entirely on keeping the private key secret. A private key can be stored on a user's computer, and protected by a local password, but this has two disadvantages: the user can only sign documents on that particular computer; the security of the private key depends entirely on the security of the ...
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One of the contentious issues surrounding the use of proprietary formats is the control of the files. [citation needed] If the information is stored in a way which the user's software provider tries to keep secret, the user may store the information by virtue of having generated it, but they have no way to retrieve it except by using a version of the original software which produced the file.