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Physical or digital keys. Digital keys are used for encryption or signing, or for authentication (e.g. API key). For product keys, use the tag product-key.

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Effectiveness of Euler's totient function and Carmichael's totient function in generating th...

Thus which mod is used for the inverse has no effect on the public exponent and public key, only the private exponent and naive private key. … It may make a tiny difference to time of key generation, but key generation is normally done only rarely, and is very heavily dominated by prime testing, or prime building for provable methods. …
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Multiple TLS / SSL sessions originated between 2 Windows Servers (2012R2) sharing the same s...

If they use a different client cert they can't share an SSL/TLS session, because the peer cert (and its status) is part of the security context. Even if they can/could share a session and thus use the …
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What format is this private key in, and how can I process it using bouncycastle?

For examples of both options (but for a different curve, secp256k1), see my answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48832170/generate-ec-public-key-from-byte-array-private-key-in-native-java-7 (ignoring … the parts about using the resulting private key object to compute the public key). …
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Difference in ECDSA private key format

Although formatted differently, they do contain the same key: $ cat se218335.a; openssl pkey -in se218335.a -noout -text -----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY----- MHcCAQEEIBaYCj/CjZjq9aYehcvyejxqx5WVJ3OnfNbBq2+7iKyJoAoGCCqGSM49 … AwEHoUQDQgAE1Rcx8Zo84aqSWqT/7i5NN7p+PI6dRfGdFFJapfcBlMhMjFsJkrxh vncLphHuZHBoEILRMKf7hfVJ+tMwHMxQMA== -----END EC PRIVATE KEY----- Private-Key: (256 bit) priv: 16:98:0a:3f:c2:8d:98:ea:f5:a6:1e:85: …
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Key pairs extension / version

PKCS12 private keys are protected by a password-based MAC and also include the X.509 cert which is protected as above and partially verifies the private key. … The text formats (armor and PEM) are necessary if you want or need to process the key as text, for example with cut-and-paste; otherwise it doesn't matter to (most? all?) …
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