SSL Certificate/Key Conversions

By makeaweli

February 9, 2010 - 1 minutes read - 64 words

Tips on how to deal with certificates created by our Windows certificate server.

Our certificate server issues certificates in DER a binary format. However, it’s common for unix software to deal with certificates in PEM a base-64 version of DER.

PEM certs are great if you want to copy and past a certificate in a web form, etc.

The following are conversions using OpenSSL:

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