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PKCS

Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are a group of public-key cryptography intervendor standards first developed by RSA Security, with involvement from Apple, Digital, Lotus Development, Microsoft, MIT, Northern Telecom, and Sun Microsystems, first published in June 1991. The PKCS series of standards began development internally at RSA Laboratories in March 1991 with the "broad design goals" of maintaining compatibility with existing Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) protocol certificates, allow handling of arbitrary data, adding richer information in certificate attributes, supporting Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and creating protocols to be some day incorporated into International Telecommunication Union X.200 standards by basing it on existing ITU-T standards such as ASN.1 and BER. PKCS then taken by RSA to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's Open Systems Interconnection Workshop, an organization created in 1983 by NIST at the request of industry to provide a forum for industry co-operation in computer interconnection protocols. Development of the PKCS protocols was undertaken in the 1991 sessions of the OSI Workshop under the Security Special Interest Group chaired by Trusted Information Systems.…

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Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are a group of public-key cryptography intervendor standards first developed by RSA Security, with involvement from Apple, Digital, Lotus Development, Microsoft, MIT, Northern Telecom, and Sun Microsystems, first published in June 1991. The PKCS series of standards began development internally at RSA Laboratories in March 1991 with the "broad design goals" of maintaining compatibility with existing Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) protocol certificates, allow handling of arbitrary data, adding richer information in certificate attributes, supporting Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and creating protocols to be some day incorporated into International Telecommunication Union X.200 standards by basing it on existing ITU-T standards such as ASN.1 and BER. PKCS then taken by RSA to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's Open Systems Interconnection Workshop, an organization created in 1983 by NIST at the request of industry to provide a forum for industry co-operation in computer interconnection protocols. Development of the PKCS protocols was undertaken in the 1991 sessions of the OSI Workshop under the Security Special Interest Group chaired by Trusted Information Systems.…

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  1. publication date: 1991 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1991". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352539979

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