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PKCS Standards

Standards and protocols Cryptography
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Official docs outline

8 sections
  1. PKCS #1: RSA cryptography

    RSA key formats, encryption and signature schemes.

  2. PKCS #5: password-based cryptography

    PBKDF2 and PBES2.

  3. PKCS #7 / CMS: cryptographic message syntax

    SignedData and related content types.

  4. PKCS #8: private key information

    Asymmetric key package and PrivateKeyInfo.

  5. PKCS #10: certification request syntax

    CSR structure and attributes.

  6. PKCS #12: personal information exchange

    PFX container for keys and certificates.

  7. PKCS #11: Cryptoki

    HSM and token API: sessions, objects and mechanisms.

  8. PEM textual encodings

    BEGIN/END label formats for certificates, keys and CSRs.

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