RFC 7468: Textual Encodings of PKIX, PKCS, and CMS Structures

This document describes and discusses the textual encodings of the Public-Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX), Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), and…

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Outgoing relationships (16 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5234: Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
Normative reference — RFC 5280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Normative reference — RFC 4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
Normative reference — RFC 5652: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Normative reference — RFC 2986: PKCS #10: Certification Request Syntax Specification Version 1.7
Normative reference — RFC 2315: PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5
Normative reference — RFC 5958: Asymmetric Key Packages
Normative reference — RFC 5755: An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization
Informative reference — RFC 4880: OpenPGP Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 1421: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
Informative reference — RFC 2585: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP
Informative reference — RFC 934: Proposed standard for message encapsulation
Informative reference — RFC 7292: PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax v1.1
Informative reference — RFC 4716: The Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key File Format
Informative reference — RFC 5208: Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Specification Version 1.2

Incoming relationships (13 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7469: Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9216: S/MIME Example Keys and Certificates
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9163: Expect-CT Extension for HTTP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9932: Mutually Authenticating TLS in the Context of Federations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9934: Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) File Format for Encrypted ClientHello (ECH)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8410: Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448, X25519, and X448 for Use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9881: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Algorithm Identifiers for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9440: Client-Cert HTTP Header Field
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9421: HTTP Message Signatures
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9118: Enhanced JSON Web Token (JWT) Claim Constraints for Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) Certificates
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9935: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure - Algorithm Identifiers for the Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9647: A YANG Data Model for Babel
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9909: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Algorithm Identifiers for the Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (SLH-DSA)