PKCS - Public Key Cryptography Standards

In Cryptography, PKCS stands for Public Key Cryptography Standards. These are a group of public-key cryptography standards devised and published by RSA Security Inc, starting in the early 1990s.

PKCS#1	RSA Cryptography Standard	See RFC 8017. Defines the mathematical properties and format of RSA public and private keys, and the basic algorithm and encoding/padding schemes for performing RSA encryption, decryption, and producing and verifying signatures.
PCCS#3	Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Standard	A cryptograph protocol that allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure communicatons channel.
PKCS#5	Password-based Encryption Standard	See RFC 8018 and PBKD2
PKCS$6	Extend-Certificat Syntax Standard	Defines the extensions to the old v1 X.509 certificate specification.
PKCS#7	Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard	See RFC 2315. Used to sign and/or encrypt messages under a PKI
PKCS#8	pricate-Key Information Synatx Standard	See RFC 5958. Used to carry private certificate keypairs
PKCS#9	Selected Attirbute Types
PKCS#10	Certification Request Standard	See RFC 2986. Format of messages sent to a certification authority to request certification of a public key.
PKCS#11	Cryptographic Token Interface	An API defining a generic interface to cryptographic tokens.
PKCS#12	Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard	See RFC 7292. Defines a file format commonlyy used to store private keys with accompanying public key certificates, protected with a password-based symmetric key.
PKCS#15	Cryptographic Token Information Format Standard	Defines a standard allowing users of cryptographic tokens to identify themselves to applications, independent of the application's Cryptoki implementation or other API.