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title: PKCS - Public Key Cryptography Standards
categories: [cheatsheets]
tags: [crypto]
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# Overview Public Key Cryptography Standards

## PKCS #1

RSA Encryption. Version 1.5, November 1993.

Version 2.0: (PKCS #1 v1.5 is specified here)

RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2437

Version 2.1:

RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3447



## PKCS #5
Password-Based Cryptography Specification, Version 2.1, January  2017.

RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8018

## PKCS #6
Extended-Certificate Syntax. Version 1.5, November 1993.


## PKCS #7
Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
* including Byte-Padding (#section-6.3)

RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5652


## PKCS #9
Selected Attribute Types. Version 1.1, November 1993.

RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2985