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

From: Brian Komar [MVP] (bkomar_at_nospam.identit.ca)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:08:59 -0500

    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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