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PEM, (from Privacy Enhanced Mail standard) is a base64 container format for encoding keys and certificates.

PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail standard) is a base64 container format that encodes keys and certificates surrounded by header lines, and is used extensively by . It is defined in RFC standards 1421-1424

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How to get .pem file from .key and .crt files?

How can I create a PEM file from an SSL certificate? These are the files that I have available: .crt server.csr server.key
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scp (secure copy) to ec2 instance without password

I have an EC2 instance running (FreeBSD 9 AMI ami-8cce3fe5), and I can ssh into it using my amazon-created key file without password prompt, no problem. However, when I want to copy a file to the instance using scp I am asked to enter a…
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How to convert .crt to .pem

How can I convert .crt to .pem?
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Generate .pem file used to set up Apple Push Notifications

I tried and tried to generate a .pem file, every time generating certificates from the client's account and then generating the .pem file using the terminal, but it's of no use. Can anyone give a step-by-step procedure?
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How to view the contents of a .pem certificate?

I am using Java keytool. I have exported a self-signed .pem certificate from my keystore. Is there a command to view the certificate details directly from the .pem file (not of the certificate in the keystore)?
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Differences between "BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY" and "BEGIN PRIVATE KEY"

Hi I was writing a program that imports private keys from a .pem file and create a private key object to use it later.. the problem I have faced is that some pem files header begin with -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- while others begin…
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Converting pfx to pem using openssl

How to generate a .pem CA certificate and client certificate from a PFX file using OpenSSL.
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Import PEM into Java Key Store

I am trying to connect to an SSL server which requires me to authenticate myself. In order to use SSL over Apache MINA I need a suitable JKS file. However, I have only been given a .PEM file. How would I go about creating a JKS file from a PEM…
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Connect over SSH using a .pem file

I would like to know how to connect over SSH using a .pem file to any server. Currently I'm executing the following command: ssh user@mydomain.example What option should I use?
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Convert PEM to PPK file format

Is there a way to convert PEM files to PPK files? (you may guess that Amazon EC2 gives me a PEM file, and I need to use the PPK format for SSH connectivity).
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How do I get the public key of a pem file?

I have a .pem file containing my private key. However, a BitBucket deployment key has this format: ssh-rsa…
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How to save public key from a certificate in .pem format

I am using the below openssl command for storing my public key into a .pem file. openssl> x509 -in E:/mycert.pem -pubkey -out E:/mypubkey.pem But when i try to use this command, it is storing the whole certificate info in the mypubkey.pem file. I…
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How to create .pem files for https web server

I'm using the Express framework in Node.js to create a web server. I want to use ssl for the web server's connection. The code to create the https web server is as below. var app = express.createServer({ key: fs.readFileSync('./conf/key.pem'), …
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How to read .pem file to get private and public key

I am writing a small piece of code which reads public and private key stored in .pem file. I am using the following commands to generate the keys. Below command to generate pair of key. $openssl genrsa -out mykey.pem 2048 This command to…
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where do I keep my amazon .pem file on a mac

Where should I keep this file for security? At the moment it is on my desktop - should I put it somewhere else?
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