Public Key Cryptography Standards
Many standards are in use for the PKI. Many of them have Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) numbers. Some of these standards control the format and use of certificates, including requests to a CA for new certificates, the format for a file that is going to be the new identity certificate, and the file format and usage access for certificates. Having the standards in place helps with interoperability between different CA servers and many different CA clients.
Here are a few standards you should become familiar with, which include protocols by themselves and protocols used for working with digital certificates:
PKCS#10: This is a format of a certificate request sent to a CA that wants to receive its identity ...
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