You received you private key from the CA??? You published your private key? Um, your certificate has not essentially been made useless, you realize, from a security perspective? Your private key is something you never never ever give out, and you keep it under lock and key! Further, you don't encrypt data with your private key, because the public in your cert that you presumably publish (server, etc.) means that ANYONE can decrypt it. You will typically encrypt the message with the recipient's public key, so that only they can encrypt it with their own private key. Unforutnately, if someone now encrypts a message with your public key (in your cert), you have now given anyone the ability to decrypt the message with the private key. I have generalized the above statements a bit - I suggest you read up on some security books and sources that are better than what I can provide here, and then go back and order another certificate. NortonNg wrote: > > hello, > > Recently, i get a certificate and my private key from > a CA. The certificate file can be read by openssl, but > the private key file can't be read. I wonder what is the private key > file format it was. The below private key was encoded by base64. > Can anyone can help me to find out how to read it using openssl. > I want to use it to encrypt message. > thanks. > > NortonNg. > > > o5d/mTw2vJqCX4DCHKSnlCtl9IAPw2o3TOwI3dK9ujrhVoKvrZ0O2krtp7cBUcRv > rhlV6qgoPURwOFs9+HSAdqsbw1Im5Y0CTq2r14ZbEU3rF4df35sMp0GMdpyK2M07 > GncX0qGRn/NugBfahiSqbAsXJ1XvThQK25bZBf6W+pLhjZ09gLGgFR/BH5axMfoN > XRVT/f14oFEVmDsy9m3lVZT+vji+HkjNHt5eXGx598ZGhdYklKv3+IBWhQhN1uPZ > 6qyeyP+RbUZN9RnA1XU62fkMkK4gkTaeGEAV8ll3CkSXYrrzeB13asmHNCq7Wn4C > OtXJH8dCtpigXqOdDcHmiRSQJqNNW8u8thmIHF7iVNm2Te/4xbA6cAxjhK+CYbrq > fApjxClh+AxzxNxJB5BtLKwkNzlmN0ZV91Ro3GIl836D/+NhVH05d8Jf/QxpDx/3 > 8o+KLw4db2JAD7DW6SfQtivA4y0FzaA3ZCD/u3zkDEDUkGQtTtiN9RR4t/sy30iE > W9rCjiapEYTNo8w2VGscvlZnqsI5rN4LgghAox1myo1vlwwD4w4Tt5kc6mBsC800 > H+UPotq5vIoMFmyt1PqS4uXfnNwikgg0r82I68wZE7AWJtUGc6CUYhAqfPFsraVP > aIJGLQA2Y1fYUPE0uClXa5tiwdhOt0Ae8PZSp28jQEXiWv/AnMn+kCkIm7Fg5uuZ > mljijR5K/JMkhcxqftgHRCyKbvPyipp9MFpUdG7uYLGMENzfuY0rlAJ6oX8dZ4aZ > bLu0jNJx44oeHKK55N2Y1H4w9QMDUTUBes2r5wcv9w8TvZ4TwHsIgLpW+dImHjeB > SgoYSb/PYJ8= > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Reinke Tel: (416) 460-7021 Director of Technology Fax: (416) 598-2319 E-Soft Inc. http://www.e-softinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
