cert-verifier 2.0.15

Verifies blockchain certificates

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# cert-verifier Library for verifying blockchain certificates.

## Using the pypi package

The most common way to use this is to add the [latest cert-verifier pypi package](https://badge.fury.io/py/cert-verifier) to your project dependencies.

## Verify a certificate by command line

1. Ensure you have an python environment. [Recommendations](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer/blob/master/docs/virtualenv.md)

2. Git clone the repository and change to the directory

`bash git clone https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier.git && cd cert-verifier `

3. Run cert-viewer setup

`bash pip install . `

4. Run the main program

`bash cd cert_verifier python verifier.py `

## Verification process

[Read about how Blockcerts verification works](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier-js#verification-process)

## Unit tests

This project uses tox to validate against several python environments.

1. Ensure you have an python environment. [Recommendations](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer/blob/master/docs/virtualenv.md)

2. Run tests

   ` ./run_tests.sh `

## Contact

Contact us at [the Blockcerts community forum](http://community.blockcerts.org/).