Re: Can I share a Web Server certificate by export with provate key and import to another server

From: Norman (NormanN_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Thanks Brian- you answered everything that I want to know - appreciated !!

    "Brian Komar [MVP]" <bkomar@nospam.identit.ca> wrote in message
    news:MPG.1da630027bdcec79896b1@msnews.microsoft.com...
    > Is the certificate from an internal CA (owned by your company). If yes,
    > you can do this (export is enabled by default), but it does not get you
    > anything.
    > Any encryption for SSL is performed with a symmetric key generated for
    > the SSL session, protected by the Web server's SSL certificate. Even if
    > you do clustering or NLBS, if you do fail over, you will have to
    > establish a new SSL session.
    > If the certificate is from a commercial provider, I doubt that the CA
    > provider allows for this in the small print you read (lol) when you
    > requested the certificate
    >
    > Brian
    >
    > In article <eGIM4rRxFHA.2232@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>,
    > ngeorge@microsoft.discussion.com says...
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I have two IIS server at two location , all having the same content . If
    >> I
    >> have a certificate on Server A , can I export both the certificate and
    >> its
    >> private key and re-import to Server B ? In other words , can I share a
    >> web
    >> server certificate ?
    >>
    >> Norman
    >>
    >>
    >>

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