Cryptography - Storage of key material
About
This page lists the datastore / file of cryptographic material such as:
- LDAP identity
- and more.
Store
File
Key
- Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) is the binary ASN.1 encoding of the data.
- Pem (openssh) is the base64 encoded version of the DER formated data with additional header and footer lines to be transported via e.g. E-mail
- Ppk (putty)
Key Store
A file that contains key material (key or/and certificate) is called a keystore
Format:
- Cryptography - PKCS (Public Key Cryptography Standards) - Public Key Cryptography Standards published by RSA Laboratories (pkcs12)