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I have purchase a ssl -vpn applicance and it require the file server.crt and server.key to import a ssl certificate
but all my certificate file are domain.pfx or domain.p12.
how can I convert them to server.crt or server.key?
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by: nociPosted on 2009-09-03 at 05:41:15ID: 25250000
Here is the FAQ on openssl (ssl & certificate toolkit + library).
/openssl/ /openssl/# cert-pkcs1 2
http://www.madboa.com/geek
There:
http://www.madboa.com/geek
The pfx file is the pkcs12 certificate.
# export certificate and passphrase-less key
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.pfx -out mycert.pem -nodes
# same as above, but youll be prompted for a passphrase for
# the private key
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.pfx -out mycert.pem
Extract the cert & key with:
openssl rsa -in mycert.pem -out newcert.pem
The newcert .pem fiel should be splitable in an editor
as the key & crt are marked with lines like:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MII..................
blah blah blah
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MII..............
blah blah blah
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----