Re: PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Michel (PAYBOX) wrote: > Hi, > I am no expert on the matter, but on my humble opinion, > I think you can rely on this book because most of its content is about > fundamental concepts, > not implementation details ( padding, message encoding, ... ) for which you > c

Re: PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

Hi, I am no expert on the matter, but on my humble opinion, I think you can rely on this book because most of its content is about fundamental concepts, not implementation details ( padding, message encoding, ... ) for which you can find updates on RSA Labs PKCS http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.

Re: PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

Wow, awesome. I just read the foreword and the preface before getting to work. They're very well written, and now I'm excited for the coming chapters for sure :-) I'll probably read it over the coming week or two. But I'm mildly worried about the date the book was written, which was 1996; and t

Re: PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

I believe this [freely available] book should interest you : Handbook of Applied Cryptography http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ Le 21/04/2011 00:03, Patrick Rutkowski a écrit : I'm pretty new to this PKI stuff, but I'm very confused about why pkcs12 files are encrypted. As I understand

Re: PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

PKCS doc., including PKCS12 http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2124 On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > I'm pretty new to this PKI stuff, but I'm very confused about why pkcs12 > files are encrypted. > > As I understand i

PKCS12 - Why Encrypted?

I'm pretty new to this PKI stuff, but I'm very confused about why pkcs12 files are encrypted. As I understand it, a basic p12 file contains within it two things: (1) A private key (private.pem in my case, an RSA key created with genrsa) (2) An x509 certificate (cert.pem in my case, created with