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Viewing X.509 DER Certificate Fingerprints with OpenSSL

Let's say that we have a certificate in a file, such as cert.crt:

$ file cert.crt
cert.crt: data

If we want to get its fingerprint, we can run the following:

$ openssl x509 -in cert.crt -inform DER -noout -fingerprint
SHA1 Fingerprint=E0:A3:FE:07:AB:BA:A5:4D:C6:67:52:00:20:D1:DF:F9:1B:E7:B3:E7

Or if we want the SHA256 fingerprint:

$ openssl x509 -in cert.crt -inform DER -noout -fingerprint -sha256
SHA256 Fingerprint=B3:5D:6C:8A:56:A3:D0:F6:AE:F2:A8:60:C0:EE:3F:72:8A:80:F4:F6:32:49:13:DD:7D:B5:D0:2F:8F:66:26:6B

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