Certy

Certy provides an easy way to manage X.509 certificates and their private keys through a web interface. Using Certy, you have the ability to:

• Create root Certificate Authorities
• View certificate attributes
• Create intermediate certificates signed by the root CAs
• Export certificates and keys in PEM and PKCS#12 formats
• Validate certificates and certificate chains
• Do all of this with a choice of light or dark theme!

Screenshots

Here are some images of Certy in action:

   

Installation

To download the application, visit the releases page and select the file that matches your platform.

To run the application on Linux with systemd, use the "install" and "start" subcommands:

sudo ./certy install
sudo ./certy start

On Windows, use an elevated command prompt to run:

.\certy.exe install
.\certy.exe start

This will install and start Certy as a Windows Service.

Note: running Certy on Windows is possible but not recommended since file & folder permissions are not yet correctly set during certificate creation. This will eventually be fixed but is a security issue in the meantime. Linux is not affected by this.

Docker

In addition to running as a standalone service, Certy can run in a Docker container. The command for launching Certy in Docker looks something like this:

docker run \
    -d \
    --name certy \
    -p 8000:8000 \
    "$(pwd)/data:/data" \
    nathanosman/certy

This will launch the service listening on port 8000 on your host and store data in data/ in the current directory.

Building

To build the application, simply run:

go build