OpenSSL Utils

OpenSSL utils allows you to invoke the most frequent OpenSSL commands directly from Visual Studio Code.

Configuration

If openssl in not on your path you can change the opensslutils.opensslPath setting to provide the full path to the openssl executable. For Windows users: in order to use OpenSSL through Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) you must set opensslutils.useWsl to true.

Features

Generate Private Key

Generate RSA Private Key and Certificate Signing Request

Generate self-signed Certificate and Private Key

Certificate and CSR preview

Export PKCS#12

Convert PEM encoded Certificate to DER

Convert DER encoded Certificate to PEM

Requirements

You must have OpenSSL 0.9.8 or greater in your PATH.

Known Issues

At the time of writing this README there are no known issues.

Release Notes

1.1.1

• add support to use openssl through Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows

1.0.1

• Fix a css issue on Windows
• Add a setting to specify the full path to the openssl executable.
• Using the PKCS#12 export command, show an error message if no workspace has been opened.

Contributors

• Omar de Mingo
• Fabrizio Balsamo

License

OpenSSL Utils is licensed under the MIT license.