6.3. RSA Standards
The public-key cryptography standards (PKCS) [254] refer to a set of standard specifications proposed by the RSA Laboratories. A one-line description of each of these documents is given in Table 6.3. In the rest of this section, we concentrate only on the documents PKCS #1 and #3.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| PKCS #1 | RSA encryption and signature |
| PKCS #2 | Merged with PKCS #1 |
| PKCS #3 | Diffie–Hellman key exchange |
| PKCS #4 | Merged with PKCS #1 |
| PKCS #5 | Password-based cryptography |
| PKCS #6 | Extension of X.509 public-key certificates |
| PKCS #7 | Syntax of cryptographic messages |
| PKCS #8 | Syntax and encryption of private keys |
| PKCS #9 | Attribute types for use in PKCS #6, #7, #8 and #10 |
| PKCS #10 | Syntax for ... |
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