<P> The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Division provides guidance documents for Public Key Certificates: </P> <Ul> <Li> SP 800 - 32 Introduction to Public Key Technology and the Federal PKI Infrastructure </Li> <Li> SP 800 - 25 Federal Agency Use of Public Key Technology for Digital Signatures and Authentication </Li> </Ul> <Li> SP 800 - 32 Introduction to Public Key Technology and the Federal PKI Infrastructure </Li> <Li> SP 800 - 25 Federal Agency Use of Public Key Technology for Digital Signatures and Authentication </Li>

Why is the public key for a given certificate always a fixed set of bytes