Create and manage X.509 certificates.
The Certificate Manager application supports the creation and management of X.509 certificates and their corresponding objects.
Certificates are organized in so called Certificate store. Such a store is actually a simple directory structure containing the individual certificate files.
The application supports the following certificate operations:
- Creation and management of private certificates (signed by your own Certificate Authority)
- Creation and management of public certificates (signed by an external Certificate Authority)
- Creation and management of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
- Import and export of certificates (in PEM, DER, PKCS#12 as well as JKS format)
A Java SE 8 Runtime Environment (JRE 8u60 or higher) is required to install/run CertMgr.
Download the latest version from the project's releases page.
The provided installer/launcher packages have been created using the multi-platform installer builder
Install4J. Simply run the installer suitable for your platform to install the application and keep it up-to-date.
If you downloaded one of the generic archives, simply extract it to a folder of your choice. The archive contains a single executable Jar as well as a folder with the license information. Invoke the application by either double clicking the jar or invoke the command
java -jar certmgr-boot-<version> [command line arguments]
in a terminal. The application command line supports the following options:
certmgr-boot-<version> [--verbose|--debug] [store home]
--verbose
Enable verbose logging.
--debug
Enable debug logging.
store home
The store home path to open.