cfssl mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• cfssl
• cfssl-bundle
• cfssl-certinfo
• cfssl-newkey
• cfssl-scan
• cfssljson
• multirootca

Projektgeschichte

Cloudflare introduced CFSSL in July 2014 as an open-source toolkit for TLS and SSL, saying it was used internally for certificate-chain bundling and internal certificate-authority infrastructure. The GitHub repository was created the same month under Cloudflare's organization.

The project is written in Go and ships multiple utilities, including `cfssl`, `cfssljson`, `cfssl-bundle`, `cfssl-certinfo`, `cfssl-newkey`, `cfssl-scan`, `mkbundle`, and `multirootca`. The documentation covers CLI operation, JSON configuration, authentication, an HTTP API, certificate bundling, signing, OCSP, and CA serving.

Adoptionsgeschichte

CFSSL became a durable package because it solves operational PKI tasks that teams need outside a browser or a single web server: generating CSRs and keys, signing certificates, bundling chains, scanning hosts, and exposing CA operations through an API.

The package metadata in this batch shows CFSSL packaged across Homebrew, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, and Scoop. Official installation also supports `go install` and prebuilt GitHub release binaries.

Wie es verwendet wird

The `cfssl` command supports subcommands such as sign, bundle, genkey, gencert, serve, version, selfsign, and print-defaults. The README documents default CA credential filenames `ca.pem` and `ca_key.pem` for signing and serving.

The configuration file is a JSON dictionary for signing profiles, OCSP, authentication, and remote servers, but the docs present it as an argument such as `-config config` rather than a fixed path. For that reason, the config-file location is null while the default CA credential filenames are recorded.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

CFSSL is package-nerd significant because it turns PKI operations that are often hidden inside bespoke scripts into a set of installable Unix-style commands and a documented API server.

It is also a classic Go security-tool package: one upstream repository builds several related executables, package managers expose the main toolkit, and operators can choose between system packages, Homebrew, Scoop, prebuilt release binaries, or `go install`.

Zeitleiste

• 2014: Cloudflare introduces CFSSL as an open-source PKI toolkit and creates the GitHub repository.
• 2020: v1.5.0 is published on GitHub releases.
• 2021: v1.6.0 and v1.6.1 are published on GitHub releases.
• 2024: v1.6.5 is published on GitHub releases.
• 2026: The README documents Go 1.20+ as the build requirement and continues to describe CFSSL as Cloudflare's PKI/TLS toolkit.

Related projects

• cfssl_trust is referenced by the README as the source for bundle files and platform metadata.
• multirootca is shipped by the same repository as a certificate-authority server using multiple signing keys.
• Go is the implementation language and installation path documented by the project.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/cloudflare/cfssl
• https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl
• https://cfssl.org/
• https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl#readme
• https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/tree/master/doc
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cfssl.json
• https://api.github.com/repos/cloudflare/cfssl/releases