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Given a P12 certificate file on Windows, what's the quickest way to see the details such as common name?

Say i have a file mycertificate.p12, ideally I'm looking for a command line tool that I can run against the file to show me the details and doesn't require anything extra to be installed.

It looks like openssl has something similar:

openssl pkcs12 -in file.p12 -info -noout
Iain
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I think the simplest way is probably this:

  • Open a new command window
  • Type certutil -dump <certificate full path>

The certutil tool is built in to Windows so you don't need anything to be installed.

Edit:

As Iain mentioned, since the file can contain a private key you may be prompted for a password. It's possible to specify the password when you run the command, which would have the advantage of allowing you to use command redirection to send the output directly to a text file:

e.g.

certutil -p MyPassword -dump D:\MyCertificate.p12 > D:\CertDetails.txt

James P
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