How can I decode a SSL certificate using python?

Question

How can I decode a pem-encoded (base64) certificate with Python? For example this here from github.com:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIHKjCCBhKgAwIBAgIQDnd2i         


        

Answer 1

This code dumps a cert file content:

import OpenSSL.crypto

cert = OpenSSL.crypto.load_certificate(
      OpenSSL.crypto.FILETYPE_PEM,
      open('/path/to/cert/file.crt').read()
)

print OpenSSL.crypto.dump_certificate(OpenSSL.crypto.FILETYPE_TEXT, cert)

Give it a go.