When opening an existent certificate, you can see two representations for the certificate:
PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) Base64 encoded DER certificate,
enclosed between "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and "-----END
CERTIFICATE-----". In order to see the PEM representation for an
existing certificate, open the certificate (click on Menu File > Open > Open
Certificate
) and click on PEM
button.
You can copy the content of the PEM certificate representation by
clicking on Copy
button.
Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) is a standard and flexible notation that describes data structures for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data. DER(Distinguished Encoding Rules) is a subset of Basic Encoding Rules (BER) is used in situations when a unique encoding is needed, such as in cryptography and ensures that a data structure that needs to be digitally signed produces a unique serialized representation.
In order to see the ASN.1 representation for an existing
certificate, open the certificate (click on
Menu File > Open > Open Certificate
) and click
on ASN.1
button. You can
copy the content of the ASN.1 certificate representation by clicking on
Copy
button.