SECURITY STANDARDS DEFINITION (continued):
The Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are a set of intervendor standard protocols for making possible secure information exchange on the Internet using a public key infrastructure (
PKI). The standards include RSA
encryption, password-based encryption, extended
certificate syntax, and cryptographic message syntax for
S/MIME, RSA's proposed standard for secure e-mail. The standards were developed by
RSA Laboratories in cooperation with a consortium that included Apple, Microsoft, DEC, Lotus, Sun, and MIT.
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