Extracting .key and .crt from .pfx

In order to create .crt and .key from .pfx you can use OpenSSL, which can be downloaded from http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html .

Syntax for extracting the private key part is :

openssl.exe pkcs12 -in "Pathtofile\file.pfx" -nocerts -nodes -out "Pathtofile\server.key"

Syntax for extracting the certificate part is :

openssl.exe pkcs12 -in "Pathtofile\file.pfx" -clcerts -nokeys -out "Pathtofile\server.crt"
 

This procedure can be usefully when creating two part certificate files from .pfx for assigning SSL certificate for Lotus Protector for Mail Security (previously known as Proventia Mail Filter) .