Security
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Formats specific to the storage and transmission of security information.
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Digital Certificates
- ASCII Armor (.arm; old for base64)
 - Canonical Encoding Rules (.cer)
 - Certificate Revocation List (.crl)
 - Certificate Signing Request
 - Certificate Trust List (.stl)
 - DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules)
 - DER encoded certificate (.der, .crt)
 - DER encoded RSA private key
 - Microsoft Serialized Certificate Store (.sst)
 - PEM
 - PEM encoded certificate (.pem, .crt)
 - PEM encoded RSA private key (.key)
 - PFX (original format)
 - PKCS7 (PKCS #7, Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard)
 - PKCS7 certificate (.p7b, .p7c, .spc)
 - PKCS10 (PKCS #10 Certificate Signing Request, .p10, .csr)
 - PKCS12 (PKCS #12, PFX, Personal Information Exchange, .p12, .pfx)
 - PVK
 - RSA private key
 - SPKAC
 - X.509 certificate
 
App provisioning and DRM
- Mobile Provision file (.mobileprovision; used for installing iOS apps)
 
Authentication
- SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)
 
References
- Various SSL/TLS Certificate File Types/Extensions (MSDN article)
 - Hashcat: password cracking program
 - Can someone be targeted using the Adobe breach?
 - xkcd comic about Adobe password breach situation
 - Improving security in Firefox
 - 2014 Super Bowl security (picture)
 - Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures
 - What happens with Digital Rights Management in the real world?