I am doing some work with certificates and need to export a certificate (.cer) and private key (.pem or .key) to separate files. I can use theExport-PFXCertifiacte cmdlet to get a .pfx file with a password that contains both the certificate and the key, but I need to have the key as a separate file. Everything that I've found explains how to open the pfx and save the key with OpenSSL, XCA or KeyStore Explorer, but I am looking for a way to do this with just Powershell.
I am getting the .cer file itself through Export-Certificate which is working well, it's just getting the key that I need help with. If there isn't a way to export it through a cmdlet, I could write it to a text file, but I'm not sure how to get the certificate's private key into the text file the correct way. The pem key file would look something like this:
"----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----""Proc-Type: " + $procType"DEK-Info: " + $DEKInfo $privateKey"-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"
I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 & WMF 5.0. Any suggestions?
