PKI---PRINT(1)

✨ pki --print ✨ (like, the pki --print one, from strongSwan 🫶)

Hey bestie, welcome to the <pink>PKI --PRINT(1)</pink> page 💅 this is the one that prints your credentials out all pretty and human-readable, no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pki --print — prints a credential (key, certificate etc.) in human readable form 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Okay so here's how you call her:

pki --print [--in file|--keyid hex] [--type type] [--debug level]

pki --print --options file

pki --print -h | --help

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This sub-command of pki(1) prints credentials (keys, certificates etc.) in human readable form. That's it, that's the whole vibe — you give it a credential, it gives you something your eyeballs can actually parse instead of a wall of DER. Iconic behaviour honestly ⭐

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — prints usage info with a lil summary of all the available options. Baby's first flag 🍼
• -v, --debug level — sets the debug level, default: 1. Crank it up if you wanna see more of what's going on under the hood 🔥
• -+, --options file — reads command line options from a file. Yes the flag really is -+, she's quirky like that 💅
• -i, --in file — the input file. If you don't give it one, the input gets read from STDIN. No file? No problem, just pipe it in 🫶
• -x, --keyid hex — smartcard or TPM private key or certificate object handle, in hex format, with an optional 0x prefix. Hardware girlies rise 👑
• -t, --type type — the type of input. It's one of these bad boys:
  • x509 (X.509 certificate)
  • crl (Certificate Revocation List, CRL)
  • ac (Attribute Certificate)
  • pub (public key)
  • priv (private key)
  • rsa (RSA private key)
  • ecdsa (ECDSA private key)
  • ed25519 (Ed25519 private key)
  • ed448 (Ed448 private key)
  • ocsp-req (OCSP request)
  • ocsp-rsp (OCSP response)

Defaults to x509, so if you say nothing she just assumes a certificate 💁‍♀️

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pki(1) — go read the main character's page, iykyk 💜

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Lowkey a little PSA from me to you: those --type values are your whole menu of snacks, so type them exactly like they're written above — no guessing, no improvising 🍓

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That's the whole page, bestie — you ate it up fr fr 💀✨

Sign-off time 🌸 this is strongSwan version 6.1.0, dated 2016-12-13, and she's been slaying since way back. Periodt 🎀