2.2.1.1.1.2 Certificate BLOB Encoding

The encoded certificate structure MUST be formatted as follows.


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Reserved (8 bytes): This field MUST be set to the following bytes, in the following order: 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00.

Length (4 bytes): This field MUST contain the length of the Value field in bytes. It MUST be an unsigned 32-bit number in little-endian format.

Value (variable): This field MUST contain the ASN.1 DER encoding of the X.509 certificate of the EFS Recovery Agent. The certificate MUST contain a public key for use with the RSA or ECC encryption algorithm. For more details, see [RFC5280].