PKCS

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Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are a group of public-key cryptography intervendor standards first developed by RSA Security, with involvement from Apple, Digital, Lotus Development, Microsoft, MIT, Northern Telecom, and Sun Microsystems, first published in June 1991. The PKCS series of standards began development internally at RSA Laboratories in March 1991 with the "broad design goals" of maintaining compatibility with existing Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) protocol certificates, allow handling of arbitrary data, adding richer information in certificate attributes, supporting Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and creating protocols to be some day incorporated into International Telecommunication Union X.200 standards by basing it on existing ITU-T standards such as ASN.1 and BER. PKCS then taken by RSA to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's Open Systems Interconnection Workshop, an organization created in 1983 by NIST at the request of industry to provide a forum...

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