Certificates

Certificates

Certificates can be found with the .mmc certificates snapin

Export option with key to allow import to another computer

Extract .crt

if you need cert in .crt format with key for ssl you can use open ssl to extract the keys.

Use the following command to extract when running openssl as admin:

• openssl pkcs12 -in C:\PathToThePFXfile\myPFXfileName.pfx -out certificate.txt -nodes

This will extract the cert to a text file where you can grab the public and private keys and save them in text as a .crt and .key file.

Extract the key to encrypted key

• openssl pkcs12 -in [yourfile.pfx] -nocerts -out [keyfile-encrypted.key]

Extract unencrypted key

• openssl rsa -in [keyfile-encrypted.key] -out [keyfile-decrypted.key]

Extract Just certificate

• openssl pkcs12 -in [yourfile.pfx] -clcerts -nokeys -out [certificate.crt]