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Standards Summary
Chapter 1 Introduction to Certificate Management System 79
• Public-Key Cryptography Standard (PKCS) #7. An encrypted data and
message format developed by RSA Data Security to represent digital
signatures, certificate chains, and encrypted data. This format is used to deliver
certificates to end entities.
• Public-Key Cryptography Standard (PKCS) #10. A message format developed
by RSA Data Security for certificate requests. This format is supported by
many server products and by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
• Public-Key Cryptography Standard (PKCS) #11. Specifies an API used to
communicate with devices such as hardware tokens that hold cryptographic
information and perform cryptographic operations.
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X.509 v1, v3.
Digital certificate formats recommended by the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU).
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 2.0, 3.0.
A set of rules governing server
authentication, client authentication, and encrypted communication between
servers and clients.