Re: PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

2011-04-21 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
[freely available] book should interest you : > > Handbook of Applied Cryptography > http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ > > > Le 21/04/2011 00:03, Patrick Rutkowski a écrit : >> I'm pretty new to this PKI stuff, but I'm very confused about why pkcs12 >> f

PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

2011-04-20 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
I'm pretty new to this PKI stuff, but I'm very confused about why pkcs12 files are encrypted. As I understand it, a basic p12 file contains within it two things: (1) A private key (private.pem in my case, an RSA key created with genrsa) (2) An x509 certificate (cert.pem in my case, created with