ND...ORT(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

ndnsec-export — export an NDN certificate and its private key to a file. Bestie, this is the ndnsec-export page from the ND...ORT(1) manual, and it’s giving “move your cert + private key into a file” energy 💅.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ndnsec export [-h] [-o file] [-P passphrase] [-i|-k|-c] name

Tiny note: -h is in the synopsis, but this page doesn’t give it its own extra OPTIONS blurb, so I’m not inventing extra lore for it 🫶.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So: export a certificate from the local Public Information Base (PIB), plus its private key, into a file in SafeBag format. The command will interactively ask for a passphrase to be used for encrypting the private key 🔐.

The resulting file can be later imported using ndnsec-import. Cute, right? That’s the whole loop.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -i, --identity — Interpret name as an identity name. The default certificate of the identity will be exported. This is the default unless -k <# cmdoption-k> or -c <# cmdoption-c> is specified.
• -k, --key — Interpret name as a key name. The default certificate of the key will be exported.
• -c, --cert — Interpret name as a certificate name.
• -o <file>, --output <file> — Write to the specified output file instead of the standard output.
• -P <passphrase>, --password <passphrase> — Passphrase to use for encryption. If empty or not specified, the user is interactively asked to type the passphrase on the terminal.

⚠️ Also, specifying the passphrase via this option is insecure: it can potentially end up in the shell’s history, be visible in ps output, and so on. No cap, keep that in mind.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Export an identity’s default certificate and private key to a file:

$ ndnsec export -o alice.ndnkey /ndn/test/alice

Export a specific certificate and its private key to the standard output:

$ ndnsec export -c /ndn/edu/ucla/alice/KEY/1%5D%A7g%90%B2%CF%AA/self/%FD%00%00%01r-%D3%DC%2A

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

ndnsec-cert-dump(1), ndnsec-import(1).

📜 Copyright 📜

Copyright © 2013-2024 Regents of the University of California.

k bye bestie 💜 — this page is from ndn-cxx: NDN C++ library with eXperimental eXtensions, version 0.9.0, dated 1980-01-01. Slay and stay encrypted ✨.