Comments in a pem file

Anything outside —–BEGIN FOO—– and —–END FOO—– should be ignored by OpenSSL. This behavior is commonly used to e.g. embed an entire human-readable detailed description of the cert in the PEM file itself, so that anyone reading it can see what it encodes without having to invoke openssl x509 … on it.

ssl : Unable to load certificate

In my case I was trying to read my cer file and was receiving the error stated above openssl x509 -in CSR.csr -text -noout unable to load certificate 140518720210760:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:698:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE I had to convert it to a crt file using openssl. openssl x509 -inform DER -in <certname>.cer -out <certname>.crt openssl x509 … Read more

How to extract the RSA public key from a .cer and store it in a .pem using OpenSSL?

Using this command I was able to generate the .pem with the contents of the public key. openssl x509 -inform der -in certificate.cer -pubkey -noout > certificate_publickey.pem Which produces: —–BEGIN PUBLIC KEY—– MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCsM+whXrxmbCkPfkwY2EehYpIp *blah blah blah blah* —–END PUBLIC KEY—–

How can I decode a SSL certificate using python?

Python’s standard library, even in the latest version, does not include anything that can decode X.509 certificates. However, the add-on cryptography package does support this. Quoting an example from the documentation: >>> from cryptography import x509 >>> from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend >>> cert = x509.load_pem_x509_certificate(pem_data, default_backend()) >>> cert.serial_number 2 Another add-on package that might be … Read more