1XCA(1)                      General Commands Manual                     XCA(1)
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NAME

6       xca - X Certificate and key management
7       A GUI for handling X509 certificates, RSA/DSA/EC keys, PKCS#10 Requests
8       and CRLs in Software and on Smartcards.
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SYNOPSIS

11       xca [-v] [-d] [-x]
12       xca extract <database> <type> <name>
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DESCRIPTION

15       This application is intended as CA, certificate- and Key store. It uses
16       a  single  file  to store the items.  Supported are Certificate signing
17       requests (PKCS#10), Certificates (X509v3), RSA, DSA  and  EC  keys  and
18       Certificate  revocation  lists.   The signing of requests, and the cre‐
19       ation of selfsigned certificates is supported. Both can  use  templates
20       for  simplicity.   The  PKI  structures can be imported and exported in
21       several formats like PKCS#12, PEM, DER, PKCS#8, PKCS#7.
22       XCA enables users to manage smartcards via the PKCS#11 interface
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OPTIONS

26       A summary of options are included below.   There  are  some  deprecated
27       legacy options: [-k] [-r] [-c] [-p] [-7] [-l] [-t] [-P]
28       Before  XCA  0.9.0,  the  type  of  the items had to be given. This was
29       removed since. Just put all keys,  certs,  requests  and  the  database
30       unsorted  on the commandline. For backwards compatibility those options
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33       -v     Show version information and exit.
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35       -d     expect the following argument to be a new database to use.
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37       -x     Exit after processing all commandline  options.   Usually  after
38              importing  the  items  from  commandline  the  application  will
39              startup as usual. With the -x option given it  will  exit  after
40              finishing  the  import  dialog. This is useful if xca is used as
41              default application for viewing certificates, keys or requests.
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44       xca extract <database> <type> <name>
45              extracts the item with internal name <name> and  the  type  cert
46              req or crl from the database database in PEM format to <STDOUT>
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SEE ALSO

49       A  more  detailed HTML documentation can be found in the doc directory,
50       in the "Help" menu of the application or on  http://hohnstaedt.de/docu‐
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AUTHOR

55       This  manual  page was written by Christian Hohnstaedt <christian@hohn‐
56       staedt.de>
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