On Dec 19, 2004, at 10:33 PM, someone claiming to be Bill Rising asked:

> Q:   I need to use my certificate on another machine. How do I export 
> my certificate from my Keychain?

You might recall I had this same problem last spring. I was forced to 
conclude there is no way to extract a private key from a keychain. The 
key can apparently be moved to other Macs by moving the whole keychain 
file to the other Mac, but this doesn't help when moving to Linux or 
Windows.

After trolling the Web for a few weeks, I finally broke down and asked 
someone I know who works at Apple. After asking around, she basically 
said that at that time there was no way to extract public keys. I don't 
think this has changed, and I think it's a big oversight in the 
keychain utility.

I was finally forced to throw out my private keys and generate new 
ones. The second time around, I did it with Mozilla instead of Safari. 
Then I burned the key files to a CD and imported them everywhere I 
needed them.
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