Re: Trying to relate PKCS & IETF standards to encoding rules

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wrote Goulet Walter-CWG009 <Walter.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, on Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:57:13AM -0500:
> Is there a set of RFCs that describes these standards? Maybe there is
> a standard describing in general how to encode from DER -> PEM and
> describes how the headers/footers are built.

Not that I'm aware of, the names to use in the PEM headers are
"customary", you have to see whats out there (and there is a fair amount
of variation), and do what others do.

Maybe an informational I-D would be useful to help bring some
consistency to the practice.

Cheers,
Sam

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