Technical Note: Adding a SSL certificate to EMS for management remote access
EMS requires a Certificate and Private Key, you will need either both separate, or a certificate which contains a key so you can then extract it.
Scope
Solution
| No Key Included | Can Include a Key |
| Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard (PKCS#7) Certificate (.p7b, .p7r or .spc) | Personal Information Exchange Format (PKCS#12) Certificate (.pfx or .p12) |
| Base64-encoded X.509 Certificate (.cer or .crt) | Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail (.pem) |
| DER-encoded binary X.509 Certificate (.cer, .der or .crt) | Private Key(.key) |
| Certificate Signing Request (.csr) |
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaushal/2010/11/04/various-ssltls-certificate-file-typesextensions/
The most commonly used file type which allows private key to be exported is the PKCS#12 format (.pfx/.p12 extension).
