Security
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
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)
- PKCS
- PKCS7 (PKCS #7, Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard)
- PKCS7 certificate (.p7b, .p7c, .spc)
- PKCS10 (PKCS #10 Certificate Signing Request, .p10, .csr)
- PKCS11 (PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface Standard; Cryptoki API)
- PKCS12 (PKCS #12, PFX, Personal Information Exchange, .p12, .pfx)
- PVK
- RSA private key
- SPKAC
- X.509 certificate
Electronic signatures
- HMAC (Hash-based message authentication code)
App provisioning and DRM
- Mobile Provision file (.mobileprovision; used for installing iOS apps)
Authentication
- SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)
System security policies
- Label Encodings (files determining information classification labels for multi-level security environments)
- Sudoers (module and file determining user privileges)
Malware/spyware
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?
- Xbox password flaw exposed by five-year-old boy (And Microsoft thanked the kid instead of getting him arrested, imagine that.)
- Be Still My Breaking Heart
- When two-factor authentication is not enough
- origins of libressl
- Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea
