What is a PEM File Type?
Secure certificates, such as encoded X.509 PEM certificates, are a means of verifying security and l' authenticity of d' an online organization. Organizations request certificates from third-party companies such as Verisign or Thawte, and receive a secure certificate if they are deemed legitimate and trustworthy. The certificate is then downloaded to a secure web server to indicate that the website of the organization is reliable, reassuring users of the Internet who make purchases and enter sensitive information online.
The Enhanced Mail (PEM) format was originally developed to protect mail in the 1990s, but was never adopted on a large scale. Instead, the container was-PEM to store the apos; certificate information.
You will probably not encounter a PEM file unless you are a webmaster since the PEM certificate files are generated automatically and are not intended to be opened or modified manually. Some secure sites may ask users to download a PEM file (possibly sent by e-mail) in order to authenticate their identity.
If you need to see the contents of a PEM file, you can open it with a text editor, such as Microsoft Notepad or Apple TextEdit. The file consists of one or more @-@heads that indicate the information stored in the file. For example, a PEM file that contains an RSA private key and a certificate will look like this:
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PEM files are similar to .DER certificate files, but contain base64-coded text instead of binary data, and are generally used by open source web servers (Linux and Unix) instead of Windows .CER and .CRT web servers.