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public and private cert azlan 01-08-2008
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?YXpsYW4=?= on January 8, 2008, 12:05 am
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Dear Sir,
May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?
Thanks

Posted by Brian Komar on January 8, 2008, 4:31 am
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There is no such thing as public and private certificates.
There are private keys and public keys. I would recommend looking at Polk
and Housley's book "Planning for PKI: Best Practices Guide for Deploying
Public Key Infrastructure" for details.
Brian

> Dear Sir,
> May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?
> Thanks


Posted by =?Utf-8?B?YXpsYW4=?= on January 8, 2008, 4:58 am
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"Brian Komar" wrote:

> There is no such thing as public and private certificates.
> There are private keys and public keys. I would recommend looking at Polk
> and Housley's book "Planning for PKI: Best Practices Guide for Deploying
> Public Key Infrastructure" for details.
> Brian
>
> > Dear Sir,
> > May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?
> > Thanks
>

Posted by Alun Jones on January 18, 2008, 3:18 pm
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> Dear Sir,
> May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?

All certificates are public.

Some are associated - in the certificate store - with a private key. This
does not make the certificate a "private certificate", because there is no
such thing - it makes it a pairing of a certificate with an associated
public key.

To tell if you have a private key associated with a certificate, open the
certificate, and see if the text "You have a private key that corresponds to
this certificate" is displayed.

Alun.
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