How to verify whether Private key matches to the SSL certificate

Madeesha’s Tech Space
1 min readJan 18, 2019

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Certificate key matcher allows you to identify which private key matches to which SSL certificate. It compares the hash of the SSL certificate and the private key to identify a matching pair. You can simply use the below OpenSSL commands to recognize it as follow,

openssl pkey -in privateKey.key -pubout -outform pem | sha256sum 
openssl x509 -in cert.crt -pubkey -noout -outform pem | sha256sum

If both commands give the same output, those will be the matching pair.

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