- PKCS12
In
cryptography , PKCS#12 is one of the family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), published byRSA Laboratories . It defines a file format commonly used to store X.509private key s with accompanyingpublic key certificate s, protected with a password-basedsymmetric key , and is the successor toPFX fromMicrosoft .PFX has received heavy criticism of being one of the most complex cryptographic protocols [ [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pfx.html PFX - How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard] ] , but nevertheless remains the only standard way today to store private keys and certificates in a single encrypted file.File extension: .p12
References
External links
* [http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2138 PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard] , RSA Laboratories
* [http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/pkcs12faq.html OpenSSL PKCS #12 FAQ]
* [http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pfx.html PFX - How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard] ,Peter Gutmann
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