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An Overview of the PKCS Standards
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This note gives an overview of the PKCS family of standards for public-key cryptography. These standards cover RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key agreement, password-based encryption, extended-certificate syntax, cryptographic message syntax, private-key information syntax, and certification request syntax, as well as selected attributes. The note gives the motivation for the standards and discusses their relationship to other standards or agreements on public-key cryptography.
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