Cryptography Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.42, by Herong Yang
"OpenSSL" Viewing Certificates in DER and PEM
This section provides a tutorial example on how to use 'OpenSSL' to view certificates in DER and PEM formats generated by the 'keytool -exportcert' command.
One way to verify if "keytool" did export my certificate using DER and PEM formats correctly or not is to use "OpenSSL" to view those certificate files. To do this, I used the "openssl x509" command to view keytool_crt.der and keytool_crt.pem:
herong> openssl x509 -in keytool_crt.pem -inform pem -noout -text Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 1185636568 (0x46ab60d8) Signature Algorithm: dsaWithSHA1 Issuer: C=CA, ST=Herong State, L=Herong City, ... ... herong> openssl x509 -in keytool_crt.der -inform der -noout -text Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 1185636568 (0x46ab60d8) Signature Algorithm: dsaWithSHA1 Issuer: C=CA, ST=Herong State, L=Herong City, ... O=Herong Company, OU=Heron ...
Cool. "OpenSSL" can read certificates in DER and PEM formats generated by "keytool". What I learned so far:
Table of Contents
Introduction to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs
DES Algorithm Java Implementation
DES Algorithm - Java Implementation in JDK JCE
DES Encryption Operation Modes
PHP Implementation of DES - mcrypt
Blowfish - 8-Byte Block Cipher
Secret Key Generation and Management
Cipher - Secret Key Encryption and Decryption
RSA Implementation using java.math.BigInteger Class
Introduction of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)
Java Default Implementation of DSA
Private key and Public Key Pair Generation
PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards
Cipher - Public Key Encryption and Decryption
OpenSSL Introduction and Installation
OpenSSL Generating and Managing RSA Keys
OpenSSL Generating and Signing CSR
OpenSSL Validating Certificate Path
"keytool" and "keystore" from JDK
"OpenSSL" Signing CSR Generated by "keytool"
Migrating Keys from "keystore" to "OpenSSL" Key Files
►Certificate X.509 Standard and DER/PEM Formats
What Is DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) Encoding?
What Is PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) Encoding?
"keytool" Exporting Certificates in DER and PEM
►"OpenSSL" Viewing Certificates in DER and PEM
"OpenSSL" Generating Certificates in DER and PEM
"keytool" Viewing Certificates in DER and PEM
"keytool" Importing Certificates in DER and PEM
Migrating Keys from "OpenSSL" Key Files to "keystore"