Best (Free) Certificate management tools

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Mark Hesketh picture Mark Hesketh · Jan 6, 2009 · Viewed 18.1k times · Source

I recently downloaded a neat java tool for managing certificate files - like PEM, PFX, etc.. From memory it was written in Java but, for the life of me i can't find it (cleared download list and non-obvious file name!).

This led me to throw open the question - what free tools are there for managing certs? The aforementioned tool could generate certs as well as display them via it's UI.

I just want something to track my certs and generally make it easier to view their details without having to use formal CA tooling or keytool/other cmd line tools JUST to see which certs i'm dealing with.

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Mark Hesketh picture Mark Hesketh · Jan 12, 2009

A colleague of mine has found a whole bunch - including the one that i'd used before (Portecle). Thanks Shayne!

http://yellowcat1.free.fr/keytool_iui.html

Or this: http://www.gria.org/downloads/tpc/keytool-gui-zip/griafile_view (apparently superseded by this commercial product: http://www.lazgosoftware.com/kse/ )

Or http://portecle.sf.net

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