Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)

wikipedia:PKCS

• PKCS12 defines an archive file format for storing many cryptography objects as a single file. Extensions are .p12 or .pfx. openssl pkcs12
• PKCS10: Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
• PKCS8: Private-Key Information Syntax Standard (.p8)
• PKCS7

Related terms

• ASN.1: openssl asn1parse -i -in your_request
• .p8
• openssl req

See also

• PKCS, PKCS7, PKCS8, PKCS10, PKCS12
• Certificate: .pem, .ppk, .pfx, .p12, .cer, .crt, openssl pkcs12, .csr, .pub, PFX, PKCS, PKCS
• Certificate, CSR (PKCS10), /etc/letsencrypt/csr/, openssl req, X.509, [.pem, .cer, .csr], Kubernetes CertificateSigningRequest