SSL Certificate Converter

Converting the SSL Certificate Format is a cakewalk now!

What happens sometimes is, your CA may have sent you the SSL certificate file in a format that is not supported on your server. For this, you need to modify the file format of your certificate. This can be quickly and easily done. All you need to do is run some OpenSSL commands as listed below.

OpenSSL commands to convert PEM file

Convert PEM to DER

openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem -out certificate.der

Convert PEM to P7B

openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile certificate.cer -out certificate.p7b -certfile CACert.cer

Convert PEM to PFX

openssl pkcs12 -export -out certificate.pfx -inkey privateKey.key -in certificate.crt -certfile CACert.crt

OpenSSL commands to convert DER file

Convert DER to PEM

openssl x509 -inform der -in certificate.cer -out certificate.pem

OpenSSL commands to convert P7B file

Convert P7B to PEM

openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -in certificate.p7b -out certificate.cer

Convert P7B to PFX

openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -in certificate.p7b -out certificate.cer openssl pkcs12 -export -in certificate.cer -inkey privateKey.key -out certificate.pfx -certfile CACert.cer

OpenSSL commands to convert PFX file

Convert PFX to PEM

openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.pfx -out certificate.cer -nodes