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PCKS7 and PEM
Has anyone had any experience with a pkcs7 file? I need a PEM certificate file to upload to my load balancer for ssl. I honestly dont ' know know what a PEM file is or what a pcks7 file, but from my research on the web it seems pkcs7 encodes the pem file. Through windows I was able to export two .cer files from the pkcs 7file (I chose 64bit based encoding). Now I believe that the 2 .cer files that I exported are the PEM files that I need to upload. Does this make sense to anyone?
It might be easier to create a pkcs12 format from your IIS server and then translate the using openssl.
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i'm using a serveriron 4g-ssl. the certificate is not installed on the IIS server, i thought it should be installed on the load balancer since ssl connection will terminate at the load balancer. Does the conversion of the pkcs12 to pem, extract the private key and the certificate?
Yes it does. You will need the pass key used during the creation on the csr, thats if one was used to create it.
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ok i'm thinking of maybe installing the certificate in IIS then export the certificate and the private key. after that install it onto the load balancer.
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thanks for the help CLoz
opensll -pkcs# -in cert.pfx -out cert.pem -passin pass:password -nodes
You can do a man on openssl to get the switches that apply for your situation.