Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
The Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are a set of intervendor standard protocols for
making possible secure information exchange on the Internet using a public key infrastructure (PKI). The
standards include RSA encryption,
password-based encryption, extended certificate syntax,
and cryptographic message syntax for S/MIME, RSA's proposed standard for secure e-mail. The
standards were developed by RSA
Laboratories in cooperation with a consortium that included Apple, Microsoft, DEC, Lotus, Sun, and
MIT.
This was last updated in May 2007
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