http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/ might be a good start.
Mark S
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Subject: Call me stupid
I think I need some basic help.
If there is somebody out there who knows the answers to the following
simple
questions, could he take the time to make my life much easier.
1- What is PKCS? Does it define the kind of key, the kind of certificate
or
the kind of encoding of the certificate file?
2- What is PEM exactly? Is it a concept parallel to PKCS?
3- Is PKCS a standard used by RSA only, or is it universal?
4- Who uses ASN.1 and DER?
5- Who uses Base64 encoding, and what for? Is it an alternative to DER?
Thank you
Colette Gotfried
interwnrld
Product Manager
212 301 2589
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