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CLUSTER CERTIFICATE-509-CERTIFICATES · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-02-06

X.509 certificate management tools

This cluster comprises tools for managing, viewing, and creating X.509 certificates, including server-based management with HTTP APIs, terminal interfaces for certificate chain analysis, and desktop apps for private certificate authority operations. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from—it predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction signals, tls-simple-versiom appears first, though all listed members show zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2012: 1DEC 2023: 1FEB 2024: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
NOV 2012OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 enterprise · 6 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01tls-simple-versiom0★20 days—Desktop application that inspects TLS connections, certificate chains, and cipher suites, presenting transport diagnostics through visual and raw views.
  2. 02y509-bin0★29 daysliveopen sourceTerminal interface tool for viewing and analyzing X.509 certificate chains and their details.
  3. 03certificate-system0★1 mo—hobbyWeb application for searching, verifying, and managing certificates with role-based access for administrators and participants.
  4. 04KeyStore Explorer0★9 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceGUI tool for creating, managing, and examining keystores, keys, certificates, and certificate requests, an alternative to Java keytool and jarsigner.
  5. 05SoftHSM0★unknownliveopen sourceSoftware implementation of a PKCS#11 cryptographic store providing command-line tools and a library for managing keys and tokens.
  6. 06certimate0★5 moliveopen sourceA self-hosted tool for visually issuing, deploying, renewing, and monitoring SSL certificates.
  7. 07certmonger0★1 moliveopen sourceServer tool that monitors certificate status and automates PKI enrollment requests.
  8. 08XCA0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for creating and managing X.509 certificates, private keys, certificate requests, and revocation lists for a private certificate authority.
  9. 09notary0★unknownliveenterpriseTLS certificate management server with a web interface and HTTP API for requesting, issuing, and monitoring x.509 certificates across enterprise applications.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.