Oli, yes I think this is the correct way to do what you want to do !!

There is an RA interface screen to do exactly this. I am in the process of 
documenting the RA screens, and this is certinly my understanding !

Chris...

On Friday 04 July 2003 10:02, Oliver Welter wrote:
> Hi Baba,
>
> sorry I didnt make my question clear enough...
>
> I know about the theorie with keys and certs - but I am looking for the
> pratical solution for renewing the certs when the scheduled lifetime (1
> year) is over....
> Because the Certs are "only" expired and the keys are still safe I just
> want to refresh the timestamp on the certificate. So I think its enough
> to simply re-sign the public key of the users keypair.
>
> I tried now to simply redo the Request (its stored in the database vor
> each valid certificate) and it seems to work. Mozilla reasigns the cert
> to the "old" keys and uses it together - I have to check Outlook now...
>
> Oli
>
> Babatunde A Jayeju-akinsiku wrote:
> > Oliver
> > this is going back to basics. if you need to renew the old certs, then
> > you'll have to revoke the old ones, i don't think you need to regenerate
> > the keys (at least in principles) unless of course the keys are
> > compromised.
> >
> >>Baba
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Oliver
> > Welter
> > Sent: 04 July 2003 08:44
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Openca-Users] Renew a Browser generated Certificate
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >
> > BIIIG problem :P
> > I have openca 0.9.1-1 running successfully and issued certificates to
> > some people. We chose client-side key generation (using Mozilla 1.3/1.4
> > on Win/Linux and IE 5x/6) - now everybody has a kind of p12 File with
> > his/her private Key and valid cert.
> > What I am looking for: It is possible to renew the cert without changing
> > the private key ?? How ??? Or must I create new keys every year this way
> > and should use server-side key gen ?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> >
> >
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