On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Frank wrote: > Encoding - Now from some testing I did with PKCS7 structures before if > you DER encode instead of PEM encode the data it appears to be much > smaller. Is that correct?
>From what I have understood PEM is simply BASE64 encoded DER plus headers which clearly indicates what kind of data is encoded, at least as long as you are talking unencrypted entries. So yes DER is more compact than PEM, however PEM is far more suitable for exchange over different mediums such as email etc and generally easier to work with as a quick human inspection immediately tells what kind of data it is about. Regards Henrik ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
