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<title>NSS Security Tools</title>
<productname>nss-tools</productname>
<productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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<refentrytitle>PP</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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<refnamediv>
<refname>pp</refname>
<refpurpose>Prints certificates, keys, crls, and pkcs7 files</refpurpose>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>pp -t type [-a] [-i input] [-o output] [-u] [-w]</command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<title>STATUS</title>
<para>This documentation is still work in progress. Please contribute to the initial review in <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836477">Mozilla NSS bug 836477</ulink>
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>pp </command>pretty-prints private and public key, certificate, certificate-request,
pkcs7, pkcs12 or crl files
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-t </option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>specify the input, one of {private-key | public-key | certificate | certificate-request | pkcs7 | pkcs12 | crl | name}</simpara>
<simpara></simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-a </option></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>Input is in ascii encoded form (RFC1113)</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-i </option> <replaceable>inputfile</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>Define an input file to use (default is stdin)</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-o </option> <replaceable>outputfile</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>Define an output file to use (default is stdout)</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-u </option> </term>
<listitem>
<simpara>Use UTF-8 (default is to show non-ascii as .)</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-w </option> </term>
<listitem>
<simpara>Don't wrap long output lines</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection id="resources">
<title>Additional Resources</title>
<para>NSS is maintained in conjunction with PKI and security-related projects through Mozilla and Fedora. The most closely-related project is Dogtag PKI, with a project wiki at <ulink url="http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/">PKI Wiki</ulink>. </para>
<para>For information specifically about NSS, the NSS project wiki is located at <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/">Mozilla NSS site</ulink>. The NSS site relates directly to NSS code changes and releases.</para>
<para>Mailing lists: pki-devel@redhat.com and pki-users@redhat.com</para>
<para>IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki</para>
</refsection>
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<refsection id="authors">
<title>Authors</title>
<para>The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.</para>
<para>
Authors: Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com>, Deon Lackey <dlackey@redhat.com>.
</para>
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<refsection id="license">
<title>LICENSE</title>
<para>Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
</para>
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