Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) Support

RSALaboratories, a division of RSA Security, Inc., has developed, in cooperation with representatives from industry, academia, and government, a family of basic cryptography standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards, or PKCS for short. These standards establish interoperability between computer systems that use public-key technology to secure data across intranets and the Internet.

Oracle Wallet Manager stores X.509 certificates and private keys in PKCS #12 format, and generates certificate requests according to the PKCS #10 specification. These capabilities make the Oracle wallet structure interoperable with supported third-party PKI applications and provide wallet portability across operating systems.

Oracle Wallet Manager wallets can store credentials on hardware security modules that use APIs conforming to the PKCS #11 specification. When a wallet is created with PKCS11 chosen as the wallet type, then all keys stored in that wallet are saved to a hardware security module or token. Examples of such hardware devices include smart cards, PCMCIA cards, smart diskettes, or other portable hardware devices that store private keys or perform cryptographic operations (or both).

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