Re: Certificate - private keys

From: Vishal Agarwal (vishala_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 05/09/03 

Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 18:35:17 -0700

1. Certificate Authority never gets the private key if you havn't asked for
archival.

2. Yes.

Thanks,
Vishal [MSFT] 

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"Parvathy" <sriparvathy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> 1>  I want to know whether the certificate issuing authority will
> retain the private keys of each client after it issues the
> certificate?
>
> 2> What does the key container have? Does it contain both the public
> keys and private keys?
>
> Thanx,
> Parvathy

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