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161 public key PEM

https://w3id.org/security/v1publicKeyPem

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Definition

A public key PEM property is used to specify the PEM-encoded version of the public key. This encoding is compatible with almost every Secure Sockets Layer library implementation and typically plugs directly into functions intializing public keys.

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Example

The following example demonstrates the expression of a public key in PEM format. The elipsis ("...") in the middle of the string denotes more data that has been abbreviated for the sake of the readability of the example.
{
  "@context": "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
  "@id": "https://payswarm.example.com/i/bob/keys/1",
  "owner": "https://payswarm.example.com/i/bob",
  "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MII8YbF3s8q3c...j8Fk88FsRa3K
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
"
}