{"id":34007,"date":"2021-03-15T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/faq\/what-x-509-standard-certificate-file-extensions-exist\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:44:36","slug":"what-x-509-standard-certificate-file-extensions-exist","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/faqs\/what-x-509-standard-certificate-file-extensions-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"What X.509 standard certificate file extensions exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The X.509 certificate extensions supported by this file are:<\/p>\n<p>.CER &#8211; Certificate encoded in CER (Canonical Encoding Rules).<br \/>\n.DER &#8211; Certificate encoded in DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules).<br \/>\n.PEM &#8211; Base64 encoded certificate, enclosed between &#8220;&#8211;BEGIN CERTIFICATE&#8211;&#8221; and &#8220;&#8211;END CERTIFICATE&#8211;&#8220;.<br \/>\n.P7B &#8211; See .P7C as they are the same.<br \/>\n.P7C &#8211; PKCS#7 SignedData structure with no data, only certificate(s) or CRL(s). Public key only.<br \/>\n.PFX &#8211; See .P12 as they are the same.<br \/>\n.P12 &#8211; PKCS#12, can contain certificate(s) (public) and private key(s) (key protected).<br \/>\nPKCS #7: A standard for signing or encrypting data. A .P7C file is simply a SignedData structure, with no data to sign.<\/p>\n<p>PKCS #12: Evolved from the PFX (Personal inFormation eXchange) standard and is used to exchange public and private objects within a file.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if we talk about x.509 certificate extensions, we have to mention the .PEM file that can contain certificates or private keys, enclosed between the appropriate BEGIN\/END lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"class_list":["post-34007","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","category-electronic-certificates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/34007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/34007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}