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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