how to convert ppf to pfx file

Question

hello all,

I have ppf file for my certificate with I need to convert it to pfx file and import it in windows certificate manager.
this ppf file is my private certificate. I need to import it on my local computer that it can be connected to my devops server.
The public key installed on my server and it is not azure. i do not have access the server but someone send me both public and private key in ppf format.
Can you let me know how I can do it ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you so much for posting here.

According to our research, Certificates are commonly issued as PFX files. If you have a certificate in another format, you can convert it to PFX. If the CA issued an .spc and its keys in non-.pfx files, you must convert and store the files in a .pfx file before they can be used for release-signing. The Pvk2Pfx tool is used to perform this conversion.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/personal-information-exchange---pfx--files

We could kindly have a check whether the information is helpful. For any question, please feel free to contact us.

Best regards,
Hannah Xiong

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Answer 2

Hi @Hannah Xiong

Thank you for your reply. Customer sent me this file

PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa
Encryption: none
Comment: rsa-key-20201019
Public-Lines: 6
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAmOZPyx4oItJLFLYw0nXb2WkGiTn70+ceIvt+
q0wiI3X6A5zzDMD/04VjAQ1OOiU4zNYTkw9RaSiFescT5xmCW8tpwNWSV80MO1iP
crU2n9xU28cM+jpJpZHvpTT+yROiZfzUncxFkxTW9lqjtgOhiWoKs6RG/1XmeUJJ
EfjWAW0vTp36LvAA0O6LD4uKG2cPyDXQLzGzu6s5oWMdp9fxOspAHsta6axmb6Do
lUYcRWMtfmq/YWdpEYNU0YBqk6H692GK/DxPop/64pg70IPHtREIa2GhpLFcDD8J
p5j2i9Ivy+F/qju5tKc9C+C5l7EkmeTzquCixeKamgqbqPqwmQ==
Private-Lines: 14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Private-MAC: 607420adb46adba416df921a74b964bb78ea0518

Can you tell me how I can convert it pfx file ?

Thanks

Answer 3

Hello,

You are welcome. Thank you so much for your kindly reply.

According to my research, there is no document talking about certificate file in ppf format. There are different formats of X.509 certificates such as PEM, DER, PKCS#7 and PKCS#12.

Reference: https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/https/ssl-certificate-format

We could use SSL Converter to convert SSL certificates to and from different formats such as pem, der, p7b, and pfx. For more information, we could refer to:

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-converter.html
https://knowledge.digicert.com/solution/SO26449.html

Pvk2Pfx (Pvk2Pfx.exe) is a command-line tool copies public key and private key information contained in .spc, .cer, and .pvk files to a Personal Information Exchange (.pfx) file.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/pvk2pfx

Hope the information is helpful. As per my research, there is no information talking about convert ppf to pfx file. We are wondering whether we could directly change the file suffix to .pfx.

Thank you so much for your understanding and support.

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Best regards,
Hannah Xiong

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