From: Magnus Bodin <magnus@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T01:48:15+09:00
Subject: saving a OpenSSL::X509::Certificate as PKCS#12?


I want to create a X.509 certificate and save it as PKCS#12. 
All in pure Ruby. 

I've looked in the WEBrick and QuickCert sources, waded through
sources of openssl, stunnel and now ruby-1.8.2, but it is a little bit
hazy.

My guess is that I shall create a PKCS12-object of some sort and
initialize this with my already created X.509-cert, right? 

How do I save it in PKCS#12-format, readable from e.g. firefox?

I've successfully created a cert and saved it as PEM with the
OpenSSL::X509::Certificate#to_pem, and then *converted* it on the
commandline with the openssl-tool. But I'd like to save it in the right
format directly from ruby. 

Please advise or even better:
Please point me to the fine manual, because I cannot find it.

-- magnus