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PKCS Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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PKCS
RSA Encryption Standard
PKCS #3: Diffie-Hellman Key-Agreement Standard
PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Standard
PKCS #6: Extended-Certificate Syntax Standard
PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard
Informal inter-vendor standards developed in 1991 under the impetus of RSA. More information at: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/
PKCS #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Standard
PKCS #9: Selected Attribute Types
PKCS #10: Certification Request Syntax Standard
PKCS #11: Cryptographic Token Interface Standard
PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard
PKCS #13: Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standard
PKCS #15: Cryptographic Token Information Format Standard.
RSA Encryption Standard
PKCS #3: Diffie-Hellman Key-Agreement Standard
PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Standard
PKCS #6: Extended-Certificate Syntax Standard
PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard
Informal inter-vendor standards developed in 1991 under the impetus of RSA. More information at: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/
PKCS #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Standard
PKCS #9: Selected Attribute Types
PKCS #10: Certification Request Syntax Standard
PKCS #11: Cryptographic Token Interface Standard
PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard
PKCS #13: Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standard
PKCS #15: Cryptographic Token Information Format Standard.
PKCS Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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pkcs
public key cryptography standards (org., usa, cryptography)
pkcs
public key cryptography standards (org., usa, cryptography)
PKCS Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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PKCS
In cryptography, PKCS refers to a group of Public Key Cryptography Standards devised and published by RSA Security.
RSA Data Security Inc was assigned the licensing rights for the patent on the RSA asymmetric key algorithm and acquired the licensing rights to several other key patents as well (e.g., the Schnorr patent). As such, RSA Security, and its research division, RSA Labs, were interested in promoting and facilitating the use of public-key techniques. To that end, they developed the PKCS standards. They retained control over them, announcing that they would make changes/improvements as they deemed necessary, and so the PKCS standards were not, in a significant sense, actual industry standards, despite the name. Some, but not all, have in recent years begun to move into 'standards track' processes with one or more of the standards organizations (notably, the IETF PKIX working group).
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