{"id":35,"date":"2013-04-11T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncodenicer.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:41:28","slug":"extracting-private-key-and-certificate-from-pfx-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Extracting private key and certificate from pfx file"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To extract private key:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code>openssl pkcs12 -in file.pfx -nocerts -out pk.pem<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>openssl rsa -in pk.pem -out key.pem<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To extract certificate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code>openssl pkcs12 -in file.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out cert.pem<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/comment\/2#comment-2\">To do the opposite<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><code>openssl pkcs12 -export -in certificate.crt -inkey certificate.key -out certificate.pfx<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To extract private key: To extract certificate: To do the opposite openssl pkcs12 -export -in certificate.crt -inkey certificate.key -out certificate.pfx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,32,12],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-openssl","tag-pfx","tag-ssl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}