Converting A Signed Certificate Into Pkcs12 Format - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 07-20-2009 Installation Manual

A.8 Converting a Signed Certificate into PKCS12
Format
If you have the private key in Base64 format, use the following command to generate PKCS8
private key:
openssl pkcs8 -inform PEM -nocrypt -in base64_private_key_file -out
output_filename
Example:
openssl pkcs8 -inform PEM -nocrypt -in /home/b64_private.key -out /home/
pkcs8_private.key
If you have the private key in PKCS8 format and a certificate file, use the following command to
generate a PKCS12 certificate file:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out pkcs12_outfile -inkey pkcs8_private_key file_path
-in certificate_file_path
Example:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out pkcs12.cert -inkey /home/pkcs8_private.key -in /
home/mycert.cer
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