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XCA(1)                 DragonFly General Commands Manual                XCA(1)


NAME

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


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

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


OPTIONS

       A summary of options are included below.  There are some deprecated
       legacy options: [-k] [-r] [-c] [-p] [-7] [-l] [-t] [-P]
       Before XCA 0.9.0, the type of the items had to be given. This was
       removed since. Just put all keys, certs, requests and the database
       unsorted on the commandline. For backwards compatibility those options
       are ignored when found.

       -v     Show version information and exit.

       -d     expect the following argument to be a new database to use.

       -x     Exit after processing all commandline options.  Usually after
              importing the items from commandline the application will
              startup as usual. With the -x option given it will exit after
              finishing the import dialog. This is useful if xca is used as
              default application for viewing certificates, keys or requests.

       xca extract <database> <type> <name>
              extracts the item with internal name <name> and the type cert
              req or crl from the database database in PEM format to <STDOUT>


SEE ALSO

       A more detailed HTML documentation can be found in the doc directory,
       in the "Help" menu of the application or on http://xca.sf.net


AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christian Hohnstaedt
       <christian@hohnstaedt.de>

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