How is PKCS.7 different from X.509?
X.509 defines a certificate (and some other things not relevant here) in ASN.1, a (very!) general data structuring method which has several defined encodings, of which DER Distinguished Encoding Representation is quite common and is used here. PEM format -- for several types of data of which a certificate is only one…
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