A cert installed on IIS 5.0 (.cer file) can be converted to pem format by just renaming it .pem(that is what i have been doing to use with openssl ca).but you will not have the private key. private key is not there in .cer file anyway. if you also want the private key you have to export the certificate and key to a .pfx file(for that the key should have been marked as exportable while generating the key, all this on win 2k) and from .pfx(which is supposed to pkcs12, but it is microsoft implementation) you can get both key and cert into a text form by using openssl i guess( i haven't tried it myself)
if anyone has a better solution i will be interested to know( i am also new to openssl and my knowledge is limited to CA functions of openssl) rakesh ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:53:09 -0500 >From: "Scott Bolton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Convert IIS 5.0 certificate to pem >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Can a cert installed on IIS 5.0 be converted to pem format, ie, the cert and >private key in text format (suitable for use with Apache). The Thawte site >outlines a long, agonizing process of first converting to IIS 4.0 format and >actually loading it into an IIS 4.0 server to accomplish the conversion. > >Is there a more direct alternative? > >Scott Bolton > > >______________________________________________________________________ >OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
