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by JackSlateur 202 days ago
p12, "industry standard" ? P12 is a joke, a binary fusion of the private and multiple certificate, protected by a weak password to "feel better"

p12 is cruft used by legacy software like active directory

Post 2005 people are using PEM (how is it non-standard, again ? Require conversion for legacy software that are more than 20 years-old, perhaps)