CERTivity KeyStores Manager Portable

CERTivity is a powerful pure Java multi-platform visual tool for creating, managing and handling different KeyStore types (such as JKS, JCEKS, PKCS12, the Bouncy Castle types BKS and UBER, or Windows Native), Keys such as Private Keys, Public Keys or Secret Keys in different formats (e.g. PKCS, OpenSSL, using various algorithms – RSA/DSA…), Certificates (version 1 and 3) and Certificates Chains. CERTivity reveals many features related to KeyStore management and Public Key Infrastructure domain like exporting/importing KeyPairs, Private/Public Keys and Certificates, Certificate Extensions management, import SSL certificates from servers, extend validity period for self-signed certificates, testing given certificates on custom protocols (e.g. raw text such as STARTTLS), obtain revocation status, convert from one KeyStore type to another, change KeyStore or KeyStore entries passwords. CERTivity also creates and verifies digital signatures on PDF, XML, JAR / APK or CSR files. For PDF signatures it is covering all of the standard SubFilter values “adbe.x509.rsa_sha1”, “adbe.pkcs7.detached” and “adbe.pkcs7.sha1”, as well as providing rich and “intriguing” information on signature verification. Signatures on XML documents can be used as authentication credentials or as a way to check data integrity. XML signatures can be applied to XML files, HTML pages, binary-encoded data and any XML-encoded data. CERTivity can verify XML signatures using either the certificates embedded in the signature, or using a specific certificate given by the user. CERTivity also brings up the ability to sign and verify JAR files, to ensure the integrity of Java archives, and also has the ability to sign and verify APK files (for Android applications development). As the features are combined and centralized having an intuitive and productive organization, CERTivity is offering to developers and system administrators, and to all users in general the possibility to maximize productivity

Overview

CERTivity^® is a powerful pure Java multi-platform visual KeyStores manager. This standalone GUI desktop application provides a natural experience for managing and using KeyStores, Certificates, Key Pairs (Private Key, Certificates Chain), Secret Keys in various formats. Constantly extra features are added besides covering and combining functions that otherwise are dispersed under verbose command line and operating system tools or browsers. CERTivity is not intended to be a 1:1 replacement of these tools – the features being combined and centralized in an intuitive and productive organization.

Thus developers and system administrator can gain valuable time and ensure the greatest productivity by letting CERTivity taking care of the low level details in a uniform manner on almost all the systems – Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac.

See below what makes CERTivity stands out:

JRE CA KeyStores detection and easy management

It can discover and open the machine’s JRE CA TrustStore(s) searching for the TrustStores in locations covering most of the known JVM locations on different operating systems such as Windows, Mac or Unix;

JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files installation

The Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files are sensitive to country import restrictions and CERTivity is not allowed to bundle them. To compensate this, for the entitled users, CERTivity features an intuitive installation from the Oracle JDK website via the JavaFX browser.

Support for Elliptic Curve algorithms

As Elliptic Curves offers the same cryptographic power at smaller key sizes they slowly get more attention for this efficiency. CERTivity helps one exploring this domain by offering EC(DSA)/ECGOST3410 capabilities with tens of parameter specifications.

Marking RSA Keys which are less than the minimum size alowed

CERTivity marks the existing Certificates and Key Pairs which have RSA keys less than the allowed minimum size and allows the user to set a custom minimum key size limit; this custom limit is also taken into consideration when generating a new Key Pair, a warning being displayed if a lower key size is given by the user;

Display validity status for Key Pairs and Certificates in the KeyStore view

It displays information about the validity status of Key Pairs and Certificates emphasizing the ones which are expired, or about to expire. The “About to expire” period is configurable and it means that the Certificate or Key Pair will expire in the given number of days from the current date;

Display trust status for Certificates in the KeyStore view

It displays easy to see information in a dedicated column about the trust status of a certificate entry from the KeyStore, depending on the possibility to establish a trust path for that certificate using the available TrustStores; the possible displayed values are “Trusted”, “Not Trusted” or “N/A” if no TrustStores have been set yet;

Generating new Key Pairs from old Key Pair content

The user has the possibility to generate a new Key Pair having the Key Pair generation dialog fields filled up with the keys and certificate information (keys algorithm, keys size, certificate version, signature, distinguished name, etc.) from an existing Key Pair; These values are editable and the user can modify them to fit his needs;

Windows KeyStores Management

CERTivity offers the possibility to open, view and work with Microsoft Windows KeyStores in a similar easy way as it does with the other supported KeyStore types. It can open both the Root KeyStore and the User KeyStore on Microsoft Windows systems;

Simple management of certificate extensions

It facilitates adding of extensions to certificates when generating Key Pairs and CA Reply Certificates using an easy to use tree-like structure for adding and representing the extensions, plus real-time validation of the extensions structure and user input at creation time;

Configurable KeyStore persistence on successive runs of the application

The user can configure the application to remember the KeyStores which were not closed before exiting the application together with their passwords so that they can be reopened automatically on the next run, or to remember only the KeyStores without passwords so that the user to be prompted to enter the passwords for them on the next run;

Import SSL Certificates

It can import SSL certificates from servers using an easy to use certificate retriever dialog with automatic parsing of host and port for given URLs; the parsed host and port are put into separate fields which can be further edited by the user if desired; it can import the retrieved certificates directly into the active KeyStore;

Get revocation status

It facilitates obtaining revocation status for a given certificate using either the information from the certificate extensions, using a Certificate Revocation List (CRL) file which the user can provide, or using a Certificate Revocation List URL which may hold revocation information about the given certificate;

Test SSL protocols

It can use SSL certificates against a text protocol over SSL to send requests and receive responses (e.g. a web service, SMTP, direct XML over TCP/IP) – both server side and client side certificates/Key Pairs can be configured;

Extend validity period of expired self-signed Key Pairs

Using CERTivity, the validity period for self-signed certificates can be extend easily; the user only needs to specify the new expiration date instead of creating a new Key Pair from scratch, making the operation of obtaining a new valid certificate trivial;

File signing made easy

It can sign JAR, APK, PDF and XML files easily and directly using a Key Pair from one of the currently opened keystores, having many signature and digests algorithms available;

PDF Signing

Supports all the SubFilter values (according to the PDF reference, version 1.7) when signing and verifying PDF documents: “adbe.x509.rsa_sha1”, “adbe.pkcs7.detached”, “adbe.pkcs7.sha1”;

Import Certificates to KeyStores directly from the signature verification results dialog

Improve your workflow while managing KeyStores certificates with the help of this all-encompassing and efficient piece of software