How do I view the contents of a PFX file on Windows?

I have a PFX certificate file on my machine and I'd like to view the details before importing it. (The import utility doesn't actually tell you what the certificate is!).

How do I view the details about the PFX certificate file?

Solution 1:

Some options to view PFX file details:

• Open a command prompt and type: certutil -dump <path to cert>
• Install OpenSSL and use the commands to view the details, such as: openssl pkcs12 -info -in <path to cert>

Solution 2:

You can pipe the info to the openssl x509 utility and then export that out to a file like this:

openssl.exe pkcs12 -info -in c:\temp\cert.pfx | openssl.exe x509 -noout -text > c:\temp\cert.pfx.details.txt

You will be prompted for the certificate passwords too of course.