PKCS

PKCS

In cryptography, PKCS refers to a group of Public Key Cryptography Standards devised and published by RSA Security.

RSA Data Security Inc was assigned the licensing rights for the patent (which expired in 2000) on the RSA asymmetric key algorithm and acquired the licensing rights to several other key patents as well (e.g., the Schnorr patent). As such, RSA Security, and its research division, RSA Labs, were interested in promoting and facilitating the use of public-key techniques. To that end, they developed the PKCS standards. They retained control over them, announcing that they would make changes/improvements as they deemed necessary, and so the PKCS standards were not, in a significant sense, actual industry standards, despite the name. Some, but not all, have in recent years begun to move into 'standards track' processes with one or more of the standards organizations (notably, the IETF PKIX working group).

ee also

* Cryptographic Message Syntax.
* ASN.1.

References

* Jean-Sébastien Coron, Marc Joye, David Naccache, and Pascal Paillier, New Attacks on PKCS #1 v1.5 Encryption, EUROCRYPT 2000, pp. 69-381. [http://www.gemplus.com/smart/rd/publications/pdf/CJNP00pk.pdf] .

External links

* [http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2124 RSA Security's page on PKCS] .
* [http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2350 PSS (Probabilistic Signature Scheme)] .
* [http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/pkcs12faq.html PKCS#12 FAQ] by Stephen Henson of the OpenSSL team.


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