7.10. Viewing Certificates and CRLs Published to File

Certificates and CRLs can be published to two types of files: base-64 encoded or DER-encoded. The content of these files can be viewed by converting the files to pretty-print format using the dumpasn1 tool or the PrettyPrintCert or PrettyPrintCrl tool.

To view the content in a base-64 encoded file:

To view the content of a DER-encoded file, simply run the dumpasn1, PrettyPrintCert, or PrettyPrintCrl tool with the DER-encoded file. For example:

PrettyPrintCrl example.der example.crl