DERDUMP(1)

✨ derdump(1) — it's giving "NSS Security Tools", bestie ✨

okay so. welcome to the derdump page, which lives in the NSS Security Tools section of your manual (section 1, obviously, we're in command-line-tool territory 💅). this is genuinely one of the shorter ones so we can absolutely get through it together. grab a snack. 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

derdump_ — Dumps C-sequence strings from a DER encoded certificate file

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

derdump [-r] [-i input-file] [-o output-file]

like. that's the whole vibe. three optional flags, one tiny command. iconic honestly. ✨

💀 STATUS 💀

not me having to tell you this but — this documentation is still work in progress. it literally says please contribute to the initial review in Mozilla NSS bug 836477. so if something's giving half-finished energy, that's why, no cap. 🙈

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

derdump dumps C-sequence strings from a DER encode certificate file.

that's it. that's the job. it looks at a DER-encoded cert file and dumps the C-sequence strings out of it. lowkey a one-trick pony and highkey that's fine, we love a specialist. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -r — for formatted items, dump the raw bytes as well. so you get the pretty version and the feral little byte gremlins underneath. 🫶
• -i DER encoded file — define an input file to use. the default is stdin, so if you don't say anything, it just reads whatever you pipe at it. main character energy from the terminal itself fr fr.
• -o output file — define an output file to use. the default is stdout, which means it just yells the results right back at your screen. 💅

🌟 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 🌟

NSS is maintained in conjunction with PKI and security-related projects through Mozilla dn Fedora. (yes it really says "dn" in the original, we are keeping it exactly as written, character for character, that's the rule bestie 💜). The most closely-related project is Dogtag PKI, with a project wiki at PKI Wiki.

For information specifically about NSS, the NSS project wiki is located at Mozilla NSS site. The NSS site relates directly to NSS code changes and releases.

• Mailing lists: pki-devel@redhat.com and pki-users@redhat.com 📧
• IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki 💬

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google. a whole roster, honestly, ate. 🔥

Authors:

• Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenhuis@gmail.com>
• Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com>
• Deon Lackey <dlackey@redhat.com>

🧚 LICENSE 🧚

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

🍓 NOTES 🍓

1. Mozilla NSS bug 836477 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836477
2. PKI Wiki http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/
3. Mozilla NSS site http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

🫶 heads up bestie: those links are exactly as they appear in the original page — don't come for me if one of them is giving vintage energy. i copied them character for character, that's the whole point.

okay that's the entire page, you made it, slay. 💖✨🎀

this little legend comes to you from nss-tools, dated 19 May 2021, and it's DERDUMP(1) forever and always. periodt. 💅🌈⭐