Certificates Flashcards by Brant Lumpkin

Q

DER

A

Distinguished encoding rules

.der

Doesn’t store private key

Secure remote access (Linux and network)

Binary

Java applications

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PEM

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Privacy enhanced mail

.pem

Stores private key

Secure copy to Unix/Linux

Base64 instead of binary

Apache web servers to store certificates

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PFX

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Personal information exchange

.pfx

Stores private key

Supports storage of all certificates in path

Binary

Heavily used by Microsoft products

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CER

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Base64-encoded

.cer

Doesn’t store private key

Storage of single certificate

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P12

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PKCS#12 standard

.p12

Stores private key

Supports storage of all certificates in path

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P7B

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Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard

.p7b

Doesn’t store private key

Supports storage of all certificates in path

Successor to Microsoft’s PFX

Base64 encoding

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