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Format for interchanging spreadsheet/database data; recognized by Filemaker, Excel, and others. MER stands for Format for interchanging spreadsheet/database data; recognized by Filemaker, Excel, and others.
A few other formats that show up from time to time: . 1 der A way to encode ASN.1 syntax in binary, a .pem file is just a Base64 encoded .der file. 2  OpenSSL can convert these to .pem (openssl x509 -inform der-in to-convert.der-out converted.pem). 3  Windows sees these as Certificate files.