CSR and certificate decoder

systrex offline copy · version 1.0.1 · no network, no service worker

This is the self-contained offline copy of the systrex CSR and certificate decoder. It decodes certificates and signing requests, and verifies a request’s self-signature, entirely inside this browser. Verify this file's SHA-256 digest against the release manifest in the systrex source repository before trusting a copy you did not build or download yourself.

Paste PEM, bare Base64, or hex; or open a .pem, .csr, .crt, .cer or .der file. The document type is detected automatically. Nothing you paste leaves this browser.

What this tool checks, and what it cannot

A signing request's self-signature is verified here, in this browser, because everything needed is inside the request. A certificate's signature is not verified: that requires the issuer's certificate, and this tool fetches nothing. The validity window is shown next to today's date, and the reading is yours; this page renders no verdict.

Fields written by a requester are labelled as written, not as verified. Nothing in a signing request proves identity; the issuing CA decides what ends up on a certificate.

The privacy claim is checkable

Open the network panel before you paste, and watch: from the first character, this page sends nothing. Documents pasted here often carry internal hostnames; they stay in this browser, are not stored anywhere, and disappear with the page.

There is no private key on this page. A signing request and a certificate are both public halves; if you have been asked to paste a private key into any web tool, decline.

Need the matching generator?

The CSR generator creates a request and key in this same browser, and its output screen can hand a request straight to this decoder without the request touching a URL or any storage.