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One-line Bash script to fetch the issuer CA certificate of an x509-specified certificate via id-ad-caIssuers of x509.v3 Authority Information Access extension.
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get-cert-issuer.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Maintainer: Gowe Wang<i@gowe.wang>
# Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.2.1
# Notice: Just available in most cases.
curl -s $(openssl x509 -in $1 -noout -text | grep -Po "((?<=CA Issuers - URI:)http://.*)$") | openssl x509 -inform DER -outform PEM
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Gowee commented Nov 7, 2016

Usage:
get-cert-issuer.sh /path/to/your/cert/in/PEM
Known issues:
Does not work in some cases where id-ad-caIssuers or even AIA is not available or id-ad-caIssuers is not distributed via HTTP or in DER format.(Won't fix.)

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