Convert a PEM-formatted String to a java.security.cert.X509Certificate
How does one create a java.security.cert.X509Certificate instance from a PEM-formatted String? The PEM-formatted String is a HTTP request "SSL_CLIENT_CERT" header value. ANSWER : Based on mgaert's answer, here's what I wrote in Scala : val cert = factory.generateCertificate( new ByteArrayInputStream( Base64.decodeBase64( cert.stripPrefix("-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----").stripSuffix("-----END CERTIFICATE-----") ) ).asInstanceOf[X509Certificate] Decode the Base64 to binary, with some InputStream reading it, then try CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509"); Certificate cert