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The file formats and naming convention of extensions is all over the place.

PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) Format

The most common format that CAs issue certificates in. The extension can be,

  • crt
  • cer
  • cert
  • pem
  • key

The file is also Base64 encoded ASCII and with general certificates contains "BEGIN CERTIFICATE" and "END CERTIFICATE". The following certificates can be stored as PEM,

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