Generating Certificates with the mtxcert.exe Tool

mtxcert.exe is a command line tool aimed at easing the creation of RSA keys, x509 certificates and PKCS12 files. Concerning the certificates, the tool can be used for creating new root authorities, intermediate authorities or final certificates. mtxcert.exe does not echo anything on the standard output. Instead, the mtxcert.log file is used each time the tool is executed. mtxcert.exe returns 0 on success and something different otherwise. The section concerns this new binary mtxcert.exe (mtxagent for linux) in the ${AGENT_BIN} directory. It generates the following certificates:

• X509 Certificates (extension .crt)
• RSA Private Keys (extension .key)
• Kep files (extension .kep)
• Pkcs12 files (extension .p12)

Any standard can be used for generating authorities such as the command line tool openssl. However, this tool makes the process easier with an already deployed binary and it already includes the KEP functionality.

Syntax:

mtxcert.exe [-hqbdcg] [-i <input>] [-o <output>]