Pierre, On Tuesday 08 July 2003 14:43, Pierre Scholtes wrote: > Hy all > I am currently working on key escrow possibilities of openCA, ie how can I > backup user private keys at the CA? > The only way I see to provide key escrow is to force the users to make a > basic request with serverside key generation because I then have the > private key in the database of the CA. So, if the user looses his private > key I can recover it from the database. Is this correct or is there > another way? > This is an area I have also just started looking into. I have noticed that if you view a certificate via the RA screen and use the link to go to the CSR then there is a field called "Used Identification PIN". In this field is what looks like a hashed value of the PIN (I think). I wonder where it is hashed and if you can get to the original PIN anywhere.
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