PK means Platform Key

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Example 1 on this page describes PK as a private key and that PK.cer contains a private key. Both descriptions are incorrect and has misled at least one reader.

In this context, PK stands for 'Platform Key', and while the key being described has both a public and private key associated with it, only the public part of the key is held in the variable and provided in the PK.cer file (as an X.509 certificate).

The private key exists elsewhere (it is used to sign things like the certificate) but normally would never appear on the platform being set up.

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