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PKCS: Public-Key Cryptography Standards

The Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are specifications produced by RSA Laboratories in cooperation with secure systems developers worldwide. The PKCS documents have been widely implemented and contributions from the PKCS series have become part of many formal and de facto standards, including ANSI X9 documents, PKIX, SET, S/MIME, and SSL.

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PKCS: Public-Key Cryptography Standards