It was not the private key that got lost but me...
The private and public key are created locally - thanks to Bernhard
Froehlich for pointing this out in a private email. The private key is
never send to Thawte and hence it can not possibly be in the
deliver.exe file.
The local key generation by the browser is triggered via the (netscape
specific?) KEYGEN tag in an html form presented by Thawte.
Thanks for all the hints,
Joachim
PS: I am back at square one - I have to get my private key out of
Apples propietary keychain but that is different story:-)
Am 16.06.2005 um 11:43 schrieb Joachim Buechse:
Good day!
I am trying to extract my private key from a file downloaded from
Thawtes "Personal Freemail" certificate service. (Thawte creates the
private key for the user to simplify the process).
The file (with the meaningfull name deliver.exe) seems to be a
Netscape Certificate Sequence in DER format. After some basic steps to
convert it to PEM openssl nseq can convert it into a sequence of three
PEM encoded certificates. The first one being my own certificate. I
can view each of these 3 extracted certificates with openssl x509 but
it seems my private key gets lost in the conversion process.
I am running out of ideas... Any hits? Anyone else using Thawte
"Personal Freemail" certificates?
Best regards,
Joachim
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