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NAME
pemdecode, pemencode - encode files in Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) for‐
mat
SYNOPSIS
auth/pemdecode section [ file ]
auth/pemencode section [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
PEM is a textual encoding for binary data originally used by the Pri‐
vacy Enhanced Mail program but now commonly used for other applica‐
tions, notably TLS. PEM encodes data in base 64 (see encode(2)) be‐
tween lines of the form:
-----BEGIN SECTION-----
-----END SECTION-----
where SECTION may be any string describing the encoded data. The most
common use of PEM format on Plan 9 is for encoding X.509 certificates;
see rsa(8).
Pemdecode extracts the named section and writes the decoded data to
standard output.
Pemencode encodes its standard input, labels it as a section, and
writes it to standard output.
EXAMPLES
Encode and decode a simple greeting:
% echo hello world |
auth/pemencode GREETING
-----BEGIN GREETING-----
aGVsbG8gd29ybGQK
-----END GREETING-----
% echo hello world |
auth/pemencode GREETING |
auth/pemdecode GREETING
hello world
%
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/auth
SEE ALSO
rsa(8)
PEM(8)