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<h1>Portecle</h1>
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<b>Portecle</b> is a user friendly GUI application for creating,
managing and examining keystores, keys, certificates, certificate
requests, certificate revocation lists and more.
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<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
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Currently, <b>Portecle</b> can be used to, for example:
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<li>Create, load, save, and convert
<a href="create-keystore.html">keystores</a>.</li>
<li>Generate DSA and RSA key pair entries with self-signed version 1
X.509 certificates.</li>
<li>Import X.509 certificate files as trusted certificates.</li>
<li>Import key pairs from
<a href="http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2138">PKCS
#12</a> and PEM bundle files.</li>
<li>Clone and change the password of key pair entries and keystores.</li>
<li>View the details of certificates contained within keystore entries,
certificate files, and SSL/TLS connections.</li>
<li>Export keystore entries in a variety of formats.</li>
<li>Generate and view certification requests (CSRs).</li>
<li>Import Certificate Authority (CA) replies.</li>
<li>Change the password of key pair entries and keystores.</li>
<li>Delete, clone, and rename keystore entries.</li>
<li>View the details of certificate revocation list (CRL) files.</li>
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<h2 id="docs">Documentation</h2>
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Take the <a href="tour.html">tour</a>.
Read the <a href="howtos.html">HOWTOs</a>.
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<h2 id="shots">Screenshots</h2>
<table summary="keytool and Portecle screenshots">
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<td><a href="images/keytool.png"><img src="images/thumbs/keytool.png"
alt="keytool command line screenshot"
width="153" height="254"></a></td>
<td><a href="images/portecle.png"><img width="153" height="130"
src="images/thumbs/portecle.png" alt="Portecle screenshot"></a>
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<td align="center">keytool</td>
<td align="center">Portecle</td>
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<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
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For downloads, contact information and mailing lists, issue tracking
and other development facilities, see the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/portecle/">SourceForge.net
project page</a>. Check also your operating system distribution to
see if Portecle is already included. RPM packages of Portecle are
additionally available from the
<a href="http://www.jpackage.org/">JPackage Project</a>.
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Portecle can be launched directly with Java Web Start at
<a href="http://portecle.sourceforge.net/webstart/portecle.jnlp">http://portecle.sourceforge.net/webstart/portecle.jnlp</a>
(requires Java 1.6 with Web Start installed).
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<h2 id="ack">Acknowledgments</h2>
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Most of the cryptographic functionality of this program is implemented
using the <a href="http://www.bouncycastle.org/">Bouncy Castle Crypto
APIs</a>. GNU Keyring (GKR) keystores are supported using the
providers in <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU
Classpath</a> (if installed).
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The help facility was adapted from work by Dave Seaton.
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/portecle/"><img src="http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=118439&type=13" width="120" height="30" alt="Get Portecle at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and Free Open Source software downloads" style="border: 0"></a>
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<h2 id="license">Copyright and License</h2>
<pre>
Copyright © 2004 Wayne Grant
2004 Mark Majczyk
2004-2011 Ville Skyttä</pre>
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Portecle is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">version
2 of the License</a>, or (at your option) any later version.
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Portecle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
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