No. Remember that a certificate is a signed object (signed by the issuing
CA).
ALso, the private key is not part of the certificate. When a certificate is
requested, a key pair is generated by the requestor's selected CSP. The
public key of the key pair is submitted to the CA in the certificate
request. The issuing CA will place the *public* key in the issued
certificate.
Brian
"fmadero" <fmadero.2uplhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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steven:
Is there way to extract the private key from a certificate and make it
the current user's private key?
RE: SIMple SSL question ?? ... I believe your book is instructing you to keep the private key secure.... you use the certificate request wizard in IIS to install the cert after it's ... the certificate that's just been installed. ... If an attacker retrievs the SSL certificate, ... (microsoft.public.dotnet.security)
RE: SIMple SSL question ?? ... I believe your book is instructing you to keep the private key secure.... you use the certificate request wizard in IIS to install the cert after it's ... the certificate that's just been installed. ... If an attacker retrievs the SSL certificate, ... (microsoft.public.dotnet.security)
Re: Certificates, Keys, Mobile Users, Intended Usage ... Option that you think about uses self signed EFS certificates.... Better then exporting user's private key as backup is to setup DRA (Data ... there is no EFS certificate and it will generate a new one. ... Mobile computer users benefit from encrypting sensitive... (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
Re: PFXExportCertStoreEx ... which contains the actual PFX and write that to the disk. ... methods to export certificate + private key from the IE store.... (microsoft.public.platformsdk.security)
Re: How to programmatically retrieve certificate from system key store ... You can do this using P/Invoke and capi functions, or even simpler, ... > requires you to add the required certificate to the ClientCertificates ... > Because a certificate doesn't actually contain a private key,... > installed in the system key store, ... (microsoft.public.dotnet.security)
