Associate a certificate to a private key on a smartcard

From: Cranky (crankykong21_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/03


Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 20:03:19 +0200


Hello,
I have a certificate and the corresponding key pair on a smartcard. (both
were generated with the enrollment station).

I export the certificate from the card to a *.cer file (with PKCS #11).
Then when I try to install the certificate in MY store the association with
the private key is lost.

I mean that I have a message that say me that the importation of the
certificate was successfull but I don't have a small message in the
certificate (when I double click on the *.cer file) that say "you have a
private key associated with this certificate".
But the private is on the smart card....

The trouble is that I would like to use the certificate and the private key
in OutlookExpress to sign message.
But as the certificate is not "associated" to his private key, the message
signature doesn't work in OE.

So how can I say to the certificate the his private is on the smart card ?

Thanks a lot for your help



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