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hynek / pem

PEM file parsing in Python.
https://pem.readthedocs.io/
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command-line tool for joining, splitting, inspecting pems #6

Closed glyph closed 1 year ago

glyph commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to have a command-line tool to perform various simple operations on pems. Particularly, pem join somefile.pem otherfile.pem --into=single.pem to turn somefile.pem and otherfile.pem into a single file single.pem and pem split somefile.pem to get somefile.1.crt.pem, somefile.2.key.pem etc.

With pyOpenSSL installed, this could potentially even give the split files meaningful names.

No less than 3 times in the last 3 weeks, I've been staring at incomprehensible caused by attempting to join and split non-newline-terminated .pem files together with cat and regexes. These tasks aren't complex but having reliable ways to do them would be super handy.

hynek commented 10 years ago

That sounds like a pretty neat idea.

I’m generally thinking about moving the Twisted-specific parts into Twisted and make pem more useful for generic use-cases. This certainly sounds like one.

hynek commented 1 year ago

um is this still something you think is useful – barely 10 years later?

glyph commented 1 year ago

@hynek I think that with better tooling (certbot) and standardization (ACME) I spend a lot less time needing to do stuff like this on individual files. But the main thing I wanted to do with this, I am now trying to get a computer to do, instead: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/11861