.CER File Description

Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) is a message transfer syntax specified by the ITU in X.690. It is a restricted variant of Basic Encoding Rules for producing unequivocal transfer syntax for data structures described by ASN.1.

Other Information For .CER File Extension

• Company:

  International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• File Type:

  Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) Internet Security Certificate

• Identifying Characters (Hex):

  2D 2D 2D 2D 2D 42 45 47 49 4E 20 43 45 52 54 49 46 49 43 41 54 45 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D

• Identifying Characters (ASCII):

  -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----