Pkcs

PKCS

In cryptography, PKCS is a group of public-key cryptography standards devised and published by RSA Security Inc, starting in the early 1990s. The company published the standards to promote the use of the cryptography techniques to which they had patents, such as the RSA algorithm, the Schnorr signature algorithm and several others. The standards were not industry standards because the company retained control over them. However, in recent years some of the standards began to move into "standards track" processes of relevant standards organizations such as the IETF and PKIX working group.