Certificate Decoder

How to Decode Certificates Locally on your Mac

Certificates can reveal internal services, hostnames, issuers and infrastructure details. CodeSwissKnife decodes certificate material locally, without uploading PEM or DER files to a website.

CodeSwissKnife Certificate Decoder running in a native macOS app.

Why decode certificates locally?

Certificate text and binary files can expose private infrastructure. Local decoding keeps certificate material in memory on your Mac.

Inspect common certificate formats

Certificate Decoder accepts PEM, bare Base64 DER, CER, CRT and DER files, including multiple-certificate PEM chains.

Use it during TLS debugging

Use Certificate Decoder beside HTTP Client, Base64 String Encode/Decode and Date tools when checking validity, issuers, subjects and chain details.

Use Certificate Decoder offline on macOS

Download CodeSwissKnife to keep this encoder or decoder and the rest of your developer workflow tools local on your Mac.