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] [-i] [-I]

DESCRIPTION

       This application is intended as CA, certificate- and Key store.  It uses a SQL database to
       store the items. By default this is SQLite3, but MySQL and PostrgreSQL are also tested and
       supported.  Known types 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 self-signed 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 <database-name>
              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.

       -i <index-file>
              Creates an OpenSSL index file with the  file  name  <index-file>.   The  file  will
              contain information about all certificates in the database.

       -I <directory>
              Creates  OpenSSL  index files with the file name <directory>/<ca-internal-name>.txt
              for each CA with issued certificates.  Each file will contain information about all
              issued certificates of the CA. The target directory must exist.

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

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

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