---
title: "trustedge certificate"
source_url: https://dev.digicert.com/trustedge/cli-reference/trustedge-certificate.html
---

| **Usage** | `trustedge certificate [options]` |
| **Description** | Used for generating keys and CSRs. See [Subcommands](#section-idm234717009231096) for certificate enrollment. |

## Overview

TrustEdge certificate provides functionality for generating asymmetric keypairs, creating Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), and submitting CSRs to a Certificate Authority (CA) via [SCEP](https://dev.digicert.com/md/trustedge/cli-reference/trustedge-certificate/trustedge-certificate-scep.md) or [EST](https://dev.digicert.com/md/trustedge/cli-reference/trustedge-certificate/trustedge-certificate-est.md) protocols to request and download signed x.509 certificates.

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## Examples

### TrustEdge certificate help (--help)

To view usage details and available options for TrustEdge certificate EST, use the `--help` option:

```bash
trustedge certificate --help
```


> **Tip**
>
> You can add `--help` to the end of any TrustEdge CLI command to view help information.


## Subcommands

| Command | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `trustedge certificate est` | Certificate enrollment, renewal, and key rekeying using Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST). |
| `trustedge certificate scep` | Certificate enrollment, renewal, and key rekeying using the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP). |

## In this section

- [trustedge certificate est](https://dev.digicert.com/md/trustedge/cli-reference/trustedge-certificate/trustedge-certificate-est.md)
- [trustedge certificate scep](https://dev.digicert.com/md/trustedge/cli-reference/trustedge-certificate/trustedge-certificate-scep.md)