---
name: "nss-pp"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libnss3-tools"
version: "2:3.110-1+deb13u4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nss-pp"
---

# nss-pp(1)

Prints certificates, keys, crls, and pkcs7 files

## NAME

pp - Prints certificates, keys, crls, and pkcs7 files

## SYNOPSIS

**pp -t type \[-a\] \[-i input\] \[-o output\] \[-u\] \[-w\]**

## STATUS

This documentation is still work in progress. Please contribute to the initial review in **Mozilla NSS bug 836477**\[1\]

## DESCRIPTION

**pp** pretty-prints private and public key, certificate, certificate-request, pkcs7, pkcs12 or crl files

## OPTIONS

- **-t** *type*

  specify the input, one of {private-key \| public-key \| certificate \| certificate-request \| pkcs7 \| pkcs12 \| crl \| name}

- **-a**

  Input is in ascii encoded form (RFC1113)

- **-i** *inputfile*

  Define an input file to use (default is stdin)

- **-o** *outputfile*

  Define an output file to use (default is stdout)

- **-u**

  Use UTF-8 (default is to show non-ascii as .)

- **-w**

  Don't wrap long output lines

## ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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 **PKI Wiki**\[2\].

For information specifically about NSS, the NSS project wiki is located at **Mozilla NSS site**\[3\]. The NSS site relates directly to NSS code changes and releases.

Mailing lists: pki-devel@redhat.com and pki-users@redhat.com

IRC: Freenode at #dogtag-pki

## AUTHORS

The NSS tools were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.

Authors: Elio Maldonado \<emaldona@redhat.com\>, Deon Lackey \<dlackey@redhat.com\>.

## LICENSE

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/.

## NOTES

- 1\.

  Mozilla NSS bug 836477

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=836477

- 2\.

  PKI Wiki

  http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/

- 3\.

  Mozilla NSS site

  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/