PEM configuration

Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail (PEM) is a standard originally used for distributing X.509 certificates in plain text via e-mail using Base64 encoding of DER certificates. Originally used for encrypting the contents of e-mail, the PEM format is now used by many applications. The Venafi Trust Protection Platform™ PEM driver supports management of PEM files.

In Trust Protection Platform, the PEM application object is used to provision PEM certificates and can provision the end-entity, chain, and as of Trust Protection Platform version 18.3, private key to a single file (rather than two or three separate files).

This section provides the information you need to manage PEM files.