On Dec 20, 2004, at 11:08, Lee Larson wrote: > 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?
Lee or Jerry, If I go and request new certs from Thawte, will it mess up other's who already have a cert from me? If not, maybe I'll go do this. What I don't remember is this: I had had the keys on both machines earlier, and all the problem started up only because I had to replace the hard drive in the machine at home. I still don't understand why fetching the same key from Thawte doesn't work. Any idears? > > 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. I might try doing this, though it is a pretty clumsy solution. > > 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. OK. That's a plan. Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041220/65f9317e/attachment.bin
