OpenSSL 3 · Certificates

Check that a key matches a certificate

Compare the public key hashes of a certificate and a private key. They must be identical.

openssl x509 -in cert.pem -noout -pubkey | openssl sha256
openssl pkey -in private.key -pubout | openssl sha256

Official OpenSSL 3 documentation

More certificates commands

All certificates commands · OpenSSL 3 cheatsheet

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