PKCS12

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In cryptography, PKCS#12 is one of the family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), published by RSA Laboratories. It defines a file format commonly used to store X.509 private keys with accompanying public key certificates, protected with a password-based symmetric key, and is the successor to PFX from Microsoft. It has received heavy criticism of being one of the most complex cryptographic protocols ^[1], but nevertheless remains the only standard way today to store private keys and certificates in a single encrypted file.

File extension: .p12

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• PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard, RSA Laboratories
• OpenSSL PKCS #12 FAQ
• PFX - How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard, Peter Gutmann

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