NAME

openssl-pkcs7, pkcs7 - PKCS#7 utility

SYNOPSIS

openssl pkcs7 [-help] [-inform PEM|DER] [-outform PEM|DER] [-in filename] [-out filename] [-print_certs] [-text] [-noout] [-engine id]

DESCRIPTION

The pkcs7 command processes PKCS#7 files in DER or PEM format.

OPTIONS

EXAMPLES

Convert a PKCS#7 file from PEM to DER:

openssl pkcs7 -in file.pem -outform DER -out file.der

Output all certificates in a file:

openssl pkcs7 -in file.pem -print_certs -out certs.pem

NOTES

The PEM PKCS#7 format uses the header and footer lines:

-----BEGIN PKCS7----- -----END PKCS7-----

For compatibility with some CAs it will also accept:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- -----END CERTIFICATE-----

RESTRICTIONS

There is no option to print out all the fields of a PKCS#7 file.

This PKCS#7 routines only understand PKCS#7 v 1.5 as specified in RFC2315 they cannot currently parse, for example, the new CMS as described in RFC2630.

SEE ALSO

crl2pkcs7 (1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the License). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.