>From: [email protected] On Behalf Of baban devkate
>Sent: Thursday, 08 August, 2013 00:54

>Have query about certificates on-disk size on encoded szie of 
>x509 certificate mismatch. <snip: DER is smaller than PEM>
>why on-disk size of certificate is 0x3C9 bytes and 'PkCertLen ' is
0x2A2??
>Is this size difference is due to encoding?

Yes. PEM is base64 = 4 chars for each 3 bytes rounded up,
plus line breaks 1 or 2 chars (depending on some systems 
how you read it) for each chunk of usually 48 or 54 bytes),
plus BEGIN and END lines (usually 28 and 26 chars).


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