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Extracting Certificate and Private Key Files from a .pfx File.md

Requirements

System with OpenSSL installed

Introduction

The *.pfx file is in PKCS#12 format and includes both the certificate and the private key. More information about the format could be found here

Export the Private Key

openssl pkcs12 -in certname.pfx -nocerts -out key.pem -nodes

Remove the Passphrase From the Private Key

openssl rsa -in key.pem -out server.key

Export the Certificate

openssl pkcs12 -in certname.pfx -nokeys -out cert.pem

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