Hi,

I'm working with X509 Authentication and now I need to decode the PEM
format of X509 Certificate.

I want to know whether the number of dashes in Begin of Certificate/ End of
Certificate is defined or it depends on the implementation.

 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

 -----END CERTIFICATE-----

Mostly I have seen 5 dashes, but in some places I have different number of
dashes. For an example, In this Git issue [1], there are 4 dashes. I have
referred the spec The Internet IP Security PKI Profile of IKEv1/ISAKMP,
IKEv2, and PKIX  [2] also. Can you please tell whether it is mandatory to
have 5 dashes in the format?

Any help on this would be appreciated.

[1] https://github.com/wso2/product-is/issues/4352
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4945#section-6.1

Thanks,
Piraveena
*Piraveena Paralogarajah*
Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc.
*(m)* +94776099594 | *(e)* [email protected]
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