During a security audit, you receive a PEM-encoded X.509 certificate file named corporate.pem and must quickly review its subject, issuer, and validity dates at the command line without dumping binary data or verifying trust. Which OpenSSL invocation meets this requirement?
The openssl x509 subcommand handles stand-alone certificate files. Supplying the certificate with -in corporate.pem selects the input, -text requests a human-readable decode, and -noout suppresses the default base64 output, leaving only the parsed fields such as Subject, Issuer, Not Before, and Not After. The verify, pkcs12, and asn1parse commands operate on different objects or provide raw structures and therefore do not present the concise certificate details required.
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