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1. Introduction

Dieser Abschnitt bewahrt den RFC-Text fuer PKCS #8 content types, einschliesslich PrivateKeyInfo, EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo, CMS, ASN.1 object identifiers, IANA registrations und media type updates.

1.  Introduction

The syntax for private-key information was originally described in
[RFC5208], and the syntax was later revised by [RFC5958] to include
the AsymmetricKeyPackage content type that supports multiple
PrivateKeyInfos. This document defines PKCS #8 content types for use
with one PrivateKeyInfo and one EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo. These
content type assignments are needed for the PrivateKeyInfo and
EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo to be carried in the Cryptographic Message
Syntax (CMS) [RFC5652].

Note: A very long time ago, media types for PrivateKeyInfo and
EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo were assigned as "application/pkcs8" and
"application/pkcs8-encrypted", respectively.