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Cert (or . cer or . crt ) file usually contains a single certificate, alone and without any wrapping (no private key, no password protection, just the certificate).

A PKCS#12 or . pfx file is a file which contains both private key and X. 509 certificate, ready to be installed by the customer into servers such as IIS, Tomkat or Exchange.

Best practice: Specify the KeyUsage at creation, verify the keyUsage when encountering the certificate. keyCertSign should be used if the certificate is a CA, keyAgreement should be used if a key exchange can be done with the public key of the certificate.

There are a few different types of certificate formats that can be used for digital certificates. The most common format is the X. 509 format, which is a standardized format that is often used for Internet security. Other formats include PGP, OpenPGP, and S/MIME.

509 certificate format uses an associated public and private key pair for encrypting and decrypting a message. Once an X. 509 certificate is provided to a user by the certified authority, that certificate is attached to it like an identity card.

Perform the following steps to the X509 digital certificate: Generate a self-signed certificate for the server: ... Take one of the following actions: ... Create a certificate request to send to the chosen certificate authority. ... Send the certificate request to the certificate authority.

SSL/TLS certificates are also based on X. 509, but they have specific extensions and requirements for web browsers and servers.

METHOD 1 ? Traditional Certificate Creation STEP 1 ? OpenSSL. To get started you need to see if you already have OpenSSL installed. ... STEP 2 ? Create Key Pair. The private and public key pair is needed to sign the CSR. ... STEP 3 ? Generate CSR. ... STEP 4 ? Submit CSR To CA. ... STEP 5 ? Certificate.