Not sure what exactly is the concern:

1. if you're concerned that you need a PEM + KEY file pair instead of using 
PFX (which is what ASP.NET core uses when starting a secure server), then 
please note that these formats are interchangeable and you can convert them 
back and forth (e.g. using the openssl command line tool - see 
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet/blob/master/testassets/Certs/InteropTests/README.md).
 
So this shouldn't really be limiting for you.
2. If you're concerned that you need a certificate and a private key at all 
to setup a secure server, then note that this is simply required by TLS. 
You cannot have a secure server that doesn't have a cert/private key, 
because otherwise it wouldn't be able to prove its identity to the client. 
If this is a problem for you, you'll have to use an insecure server 
(regardless of what framework you're using).

On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 6:05:46 AM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> While we want to move to .net core in the future, we would like to use 
> grpc with .net framework. However this needs PEM file during service start, 
> is there any workaround/solution that doesn't need PEM file? Also, why does 
> gRPC with .Net core not require the PEM file and why is PEM file only 
> needed when using gRPC with .Net framework?
>             SslServerCredentials sslServerCredentials = new 
> SslServerCredentials(new List<KeyCertificatePair>() { new 
> KeyCertificatePair(certificatePem, certificateKey) }, null, false);
>             Grpc.Core.Server server = new Grpc.Core.Server
>             {
>                 Services = { service.BindService(new Server()) },
>                 Ports = { new ServerPort(server.Host, server.Port, 
> sslServerCredentials) }
>             };
>             server.Start();
>

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