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class Certificate

Usage in Deno

import { Certificate } from "node:crypto";
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SPKAC is a Certificate Signing Request mechanism originally implemented by Netscape and was specified formally as part of HTML5's keygen element.

<keygen> is deprecated since HTML 5.2 and new projects should not use this element anymore.

The node:crypto module provides the Certificate class for working with SPKAC data. The most common usage is handling output generated by the HTML5 <keygen> element. Node.js uses OpenSSL's SPKAC implementation internally.

Methods

deprecated
exportChallenge(spkac: BinaryLike): Buffer
deprecated
exportPublicKey(
spkac: BinaryLike,
encoding?: string,
): Buffer
deprecated
verifySpkac(spkac: ArrayBufferView): boolean

Static Methods

exportChallenge(spkac: BinaryLike): Buffer
const { Certificate } = await import('node:crypto');
const spkac = getSpkacSomehow();
const challenge = Certificate.exportChallenge(spkac);
console.log(challenge.toString('utf8'));
// Prints: the challenge as a UTF8 string
exportPublicKey(
spkac: BinaryLike,
encoding?: string,
): Buffer
const { Certificate } = await import('node:crypto');
const spkac = getSpkacSomehow();
const publicKey = Certificate.exportPublicKey(spkac);
console.log(publicKey);
// Prints: the public key as <Buffer ...>
verifySpkac(spkac: ArrayBufferView): boolean
import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';
const { Certificate } = await import('node:crypto');

const spkac = getSpkacSomehow();
console.log(Certificate.verifySpkac(Buffer.from(spkac)));
// Prints: true or false