SSL/TLS Certificate file formats

1) X.509 digital certificates.

The structure of the certification is standardized

The format of the actual certificate file can take many different forms. And this will read any file format


File format types:

1) DER - Distinguished Encoding rules.

2) PEM - Privacy Enhanced Mail

3) PKCS #12 - Public key cryptography standards #12

4) In windows CER file format - Certificate

5) PKCS #7 - Public key cryptography standards #7

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