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The BonsaiFramework uses crt for the following certificates because the extension is recognized by Windows. Double-clicking on a crt file in Windows will show details about the certificate,

  • Server Certificates
  • Intermediate Certificates

By convention and because these keys do not work in Windows we use the following extensions,

  • key - Private Server
Keys use the key extension.
  • Key
  • csr - Certificate Signing Requests must be decoded

DER Format

The DER format is a binary form of the certificate. It is best to use the.der extension but sometimes the .cer extension is used. In that case you must open the with a text editor and look for BEGIN/END statements.

All types of certificates and private keys can be encoded in DR. DER is typically used with Java.

P7b Format

Converting from Open SSL to IKeyman

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