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Certificates & Keys File Signatures

Cryptographic certificate, key, and keystore formats — PEM, DER, PKCS#12, PGP — and their distinguishing magic bytes.

11 formats in this category

.asc

ASC

Safe

Primary Hex

2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 50 47 50 20 50 55 42 4C 49 43 20 4B 45 49 20 42 4C 4F 43 4B 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D
.crt

CRT

Safe

Primary Hex

43 36 34 20 43 41 52 54 52 49 44 47 45 20 20 20
.csr

CSR

Safe

Primary Hex

2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 43 45 52 54 49 46 49 43 41 54 45 20 52 45 51 55 45 53 54 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D
.der

DER

Safe

Primary Hex

30 80
.gpg

GPG

Safe

Primary Hex

85
.kdb

KDB

Safe

Primary Hex

37 48 03 02 00 00 00 00
.key

KEY

Safe

Primary Hex

2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 50 52 49 56 41 54 45 20 4B 45 59 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D
.p7s

P7S

Safe

Primary Hex

2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 50 4B 43 53 37
.pem

PEM

Safe

Primary Hex

2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 43 45 52 54 49 46 49 43 41 54 45 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D
.pgp

PGP

Safe

Primary Hex

85
.pub

SSH2 public key (RFC 4716)

Safe

Primary Hex

2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 53 53 48 32 20 4B 45 59 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D