What Is PKCS12 Certificate Bundle

This section describes what is PEM certificate bundle - a concatenation of multiple certificates in PEM format.

What Is PKCS12 Certificate Bundle? A PKCS12 certificate bundle is a database file in PKCS #12 format to store cryptography objects including private/public key pairs and certificates.

PKCS12 certificate bundle is commonly used to store a single certificate and its matching private/public key pair.

Main features of PKCS12 certificate bundle are:

For more information, see PKCS12 Certificate Bundle File chapter in this book.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of PKI Certificate

 PKI Certificate File Formats

 OpenSSL - Cryptography Toolkit

 "openssl ca" - CA (Certificate Authority) Tool

 Java "keytool" Commands and KeyStore Files

PKI Certificate Store

 What Is PKI Certificate Store

 What Is Windows Certificate Store

 What Is macOS KeyChain

 What Is Linux Truststore

 What Is Java KeyStore

 What Is PEM Certificate Bundle

What Is PKCS12 Certificate Bundle

 PKCS12 Certificate Bundle File

 PKCS7 Certificate Chain File

 PKI Certificate Related Terminology

 References

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