Portecle

Portecle is a user friendly GUI application for creating, managing and examining keystores, keys, certificates, certificate requests, certificate revocation lists and more.

Features

Currently, Portecle can be used to, for example:

• Create, load, save, and convert keystores.
• Generate DSA and RSA key pair entries with self-signed version 1 X.509 certificates.
• Import X.509 certificate files as trusted certificates.
• Import key pairs from PKCS #12 and PEM bundle files.
• Clone and change the password of key pair entries and keystores.
• View the details of certificates contained within keystore entries, certificate files, and SSL/TLS connections.
• Export keystore entries in a variety of formats.
• Generate and view certification requests (CSRs).
• Import Certificate Authority (CA) replies.
• Change the password of key pair entries and keystores.
• Delete, clone, and rename keystore entries.
• View the details of certificate revocation list (CRL) files.

Documentation

Take the tour. Read the HOWTOs.

Screenshots

keytool	Portecle

Resources

For downloads, contact information and mailing lists, issue tracking and other development facilities, see the SourceForge.net project page. Check also your operating system distribution to see if Portecle is already included. RPM packages of Portecle are additionally available from the JPackage Project.

Portecle can be launched directly with Java Web Start (Java 1.7 or later with Web Start required):

Portecle's Web Start files are self-signed. Security settings in some environments do not allow such Web Start applications to run by default. If an error message indicating this scenario is presented and you want to work around it, one way is to add http://portecle.sourceforge.net/webstart/portecle.jnlp to Java's exception site list.

Acknowledgments

Most of the cryptographic functionality of this program is implemented using the Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs. GNU Keyring (GKR) keystores are supported using the providers in GNU Classpath (if installed).

The help facility was adapted from work by Dave Seaton.

Copyright and License

Copyright © 2004 Wayne Grant
            2004 Mark Majczyk
            2004-2016 Ville Skyttä

Portecle is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Portecle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.