To get a human-readable view of the contents of the certificates: openssl x509 -in TargetCollidingCertificate1.cer -inform DER -text openssl x509 -in TargetCollidingCertificate2.cer -inform DER -text To verify the signature on the two certificates against the CA certificate, first convert the certificates to PEM-format ("openssl verify" does not work with the DER format): openssl x509 -in TargetCollidingCertificate1.cer -inform DER -out TargetCollidingCertificate1.pem openssl x509 -in TargetCollidingCertificate2.cer -inform DER -out TargetCollidingCertificate2.pem openssl x509 -in MD5CollisionCA.cer -inform DER -out MD5CollisionCA.pem and then do the verification: openssl verify -CAfile MD5CollisionCA.pem TargetCollidingCertificate1.pem openssl verify -CAfile MD5CollisionCA.pem TargetCollidingCertificate2.pem