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pp – Prints certificates, keys, crls, and pkcs7 files

Synopsis

pp -t type [-a] [-i input] [-o output] [-u] [-w]

Status

This documentation is still work in progress. Please contribute to the initial review in m[blue]Mozilla NSS bug 836477m[][1]

Description

pp pretty-prints private and public key, certificate, certificate-request, pkcs7 or crl files

Options

-t type

specify the input, one of {private-key | public-key | certificate | certificate-request | pkcs7 | crl}

-a

Input is in ascii encoded form (RFC1113)

-i inputfile

Define an input file to use (default is stdin)

-o outputfile

Define an output file to use (default is stdout)

-u

Use UTF-8 (default is to show non-ascii as .)

-w

Don’t wrap long output lines

Additional Resources

NSS is maintained in conjunction with PKI and security-related projects through Mozilla and Fedora. The most closely-related project is Dogtag PKI, with a project wiki at m[blue]PKI Wikim[][2].

For information specifically about NSS, the NSS project wiki is located at m[blue]Mozilla NSS sitem[][3]. The NSS site relates directly to NSS code changes and releases.

Mailing lists: pki-devel [at] redhat.com and pki-users [at] redhat.com

IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki

Authors

The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.

Authors: Elio Maldonado <emaldona [at] redhat.com>, Deon Lackey <dlackey [at] redhat.com>.

License

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

Notes

1.

Mozilla NSS bug 836477

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836477

2.

PKI Wiki

http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/

3.

Mozilla NSS site

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

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