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IBM's free certificate viewer and manager. It is written in Java though source in not included. It understands the following types of certificate: Windows certificate repositories, X.509/PKIX (certificates V3, CRLs V2), PKCS (#7, #10, #11, #12), Netscape certificate requests (SPKAC), Netscape db files. It does not understand PGP. It will even guide you through the process of purchasing a certificate. It will let you import and export certificates between repositories. It lets you change the label/alias name. This lets you consolidate .keystore or cacerts files.

It is just a great tool for figuring out what is in all those certificate and certificate repository files. The bat file in version 1.5 to kick it off is flawed. Modify it to look like this:

set KMHOME=C:\KM
java -cp "%KMHOME%\km.zip;%CLASSPATH%" -Dkm.dir="%KMHOME%" Main %1

Version 1.6 has a proper installer, but the certificate delete function in broken. You can still delete if you use the pulldown menu instead of the X delete button.

certificate viewer student project ¤ keytool

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