Timeline for Is PKCS7 a signature format or a certificate format?
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | @Makif Good to know! Mind you, this is an extremely hackish way, because you would still mark it as signed content. PKCS#12 can also be used and encoded as PEM; PKCS#12 is a trust/key store format and would make a lot more sense. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | Makif |
From this answer:The .p7b or .p7c format is a special case of PKCS#7/CMS: a SignedData structure containing no "content" and zero SignerInfos, but one or more certificates (usually) and/or CRLs (rarely). So, this format enables storing only certificates.
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 14:02 | comment | added | user93353 | Can you have a PKCS file which is just a certificate & does not contain any signature (other than signature which is part of the certificate itself)? That is my main question - so if I wasn't clear enough? | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 9:16 | comment | added | Makif | @MaartenBodewes Thanks for comment, i've edited my answer. Also, feel free to edit my answer as you like if there are some points still missing. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 9:14 | history | edited | Makif | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 7:39 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | Nice answer. You may possibly improve it by explaining that PKCS means Public Key Cryptographic Standard, which is a set of standards from RSA Laboratories (and PKCS #7 in full is the 7th standard). Furthermore you might mention that CMS may contain signing and intermediate certificates. (sorry, previous comment was too strongly worded). | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 6:00 | history | answered | Makif | CC BY-SA 3.0 |