Request for Comment: adding chain info to keytool -list

[Weijun Wang]

You mean a tree of the whole keystore, but not chain for each entry. Right?

Max

On 01/18/2011 09:26 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
> I would like to see a option to display the intuitive tree. For example:
> $ keytool -list -tree -keystore ...
>    + root CA alias
>      + intermediate CA alias
>        + entity cert 1 alias
>        + entity cert 2 alias
>
> Andrew
>
> On 1/17/2011 4:59 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have a keystore with a bunch of testing root CA, intermediate CA and
>> entity certs, some PrivateKeyEntry and some TrustedCertEntry, and it's
>> quite difficult to know who signs who. Therefore I suggest some
>> enhancement for the simple "keytool -list". (by simple, I mean no "-v").
>>
>> The entry will look like:
>>
>>    user, Sep 6, 2007, PrivateKeyEntry, user - signer - rootca(self)
>>
>> Here, "user - signer - bigca(self)" means the entry's cert chain has 3
>> certs, which matches aliases user, signer, and rootca in the same
>> keystore, and rootca is a self-signed cert.
>>
>> When a cert is not inside this keystore, its distinguished name can be
>> printed, like this:
>>
>>    user, Sep 6, 2007, PrivateKeyEntry, user - signer - "CN=Root CA"(self)
>>
>> Also, if the last cert is not self-signed, its signed can also be added
>> after "--", like this:
>>
>>    user, Sep 6, 2007, PrivateKeyEntry,
>>                    user - signer -- "CN=Another CA"(self)
>>
>> Do you find this useful?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Max
>>
>>
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