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| GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| The X.509 (PKIX1) certificate decoder. Invoking `make` will compile the ASN.1 |
| specifications from the rfc3280.txt in the above directory. |
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| x509dump USAGE |
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| To use the x509dump, you'll have to prepare an X.509 certificate |
| in DER encoding. The typical X.509 certificate will have a PEM format |
| (DER encoded data wrapped in base64, wrapped in PEM "BEGIN" and "END" sections). |
| The openssl x509 utility may be used to convert between PEM and DER. |
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| EXAMPLE: Convert 'certificate.pem' into 'certificate.der': |
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| openssl x509 -inform PEM -in certificate.pem \ |
| -outform DER -out certificate.der |
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| After convertsion, the x509dump utility may be used to dump the contents |
| of the DER-encoded X.509 certificate: |
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| ./x509dump certificate.der # Print as XML (BASIC-XER) |
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| The full list of recognized command line options may be obtained with |
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| > ./x509dump -h |
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