Re: tool for conversion between certificate encoding

2000-07-27 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
There is the "x509" tool which is part of SSLeay (or OpenSSL). -Jeff Sanket Naik wrote: > hi > > can someone point me to a tool (preferably unix command line) for > conversion between different X.509 certificate encodings, DER, base64, > > > thanks > sanket

Re: tool for conversion between certificate encoding

2000-07-27 Thread Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
What are you really trying to do? X.509 is ASN.1 encoded by definition and that is important because it's that encoding that is signed. I can understand wanting to part a certificate and extract fields, but why would you generally want to convert it to a different encoding? For anyone to verif

tool for conversion between certificate encoding

2000-07-27 Thread Sanket Naik
hi can someone point me to a tool (preferably unix command line) for conversion between different X.509 certificate encodings, DER, base64, thanks sanket