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The BonsaiFramework uses the extension format.crt for the following certificates because the extension is recognized by Windows. Double-clicking on a crt file in Windows will show details about the certificate. We use the format.crt extension for the following,

  • Server Certificates for example, www.krypton.com*.pem.crt*
  • Intermediate Certificates for example, www.krypton.com_signed_cert.pem.crt

By convention and because these keys do not work in Windows we use the following extensions,

  • key - Private Server Key for example, www.krypton.com.pem.key
  • csr - Certificate Signing Requests must be decoded, www.krypton.com.pem.csr

DER Format

The DER format is a binary form of the certificate. It is best to use the.der extension but sometimes the .cer extension is used. In that case you must open the with a text editor and look for BEGIN/END statements.

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