pycertvwr 0.1

pycertvwr is a simple X.509 certificate viewer for KDE environment.<br /><br />It has been tested with several certificates on Kubuntu 9.10 with PyQT4 bindings and m2crypto library.<br /><br />It is also my first Python, PyQt4 and m2crypto program, so bugs (a lot) are expected...<br /><br />Requirements:<br /><br />This has been developed on Kubuntu 9.10 with KDE 4.4 with Python 2.6.4 using the available PyQT4 and m2crypto packages on Kubuntu/Ubuntu reps..<br /><br />I've not tested on other platforms/distributions, so there might exist problems installing and using.<br /><br />Functionality:<br /><br />The available functionality are the ones that are available by the m2crypto lib:<br /><br />- View certificate subject, issuer, dates and extensions<br />- Open X.509 certificates in DER and PEM format<br />- Export X.509 certificates in DER and PEM format. This is better than using the openssl command line<br /><br />It hasn't yet any way to validate the following:<br />- The certificate chain<br />- The CRL<br />- The validity of the certificate data<br />Maybe for future versions.<br /><br />Bugs:<br />I believe that on this simple program there are a lot of them, mainly:<br />- incorrect use/design of QT designer for creating the UI...<br />- incorrect manipulation of strings, mainly for decoding unicode/utf-8/utf-16 strings that might be on the certificate<br />- incorrect use of messagebox on the class constructor...<br />- unknow bugs that might make things explode...<br /><br />How to use it:<br /><br />The simplest way is to call it from the command line with the certificate file as the first parameter:<br /><br />pycertvwr cert.crt<br /><br />The certificate must be in DER (binary) or PEM (Base64) format.<br /><br />It is also possible to associate the program to the file extensions like crt, cer, der and so on on Dolphin and Konqueror.<br /><br />How to install:<br /><br />I'm unable to find information on the web for packaging python scripts for KDE, so the solution so far is to copy the files to /usr/local/bin or one directory that's included in the PATH.

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Platforms:	*nix, Linux
Keyword:	Certificate,  Certificates,  Command,  Crypto,  Extensions,  Format,  Incorrect,  Kubuntu,  Program,  Pycertvwr,  Pyqt,  Python,  Simple,  Strings,  Tested
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