admin wrote: > > Hi, > > I import my pkcs12 personal certificate (openssl generated) into IE5.5. It > takes it without a problem and puts everything in its place: CA cert, > personal cert, private key. > > The problem is that once I set up the initial security level on the private > key (low, medium, high, and the password for 'high'), I can no longer > change it. > > Removing the associated personal certificate and CA certificate does not > remove the private key. I had to nuke the registry and re-install to get > the priv key security dialogs back. Is there a cleaner way? > The only documented way to change the level is to delete the container and recreate it. You can do things by deleting the key container at a CryptoAPI level, but you need a fair knowledge of CryptoAPI to do that. I recall Outlook (maybe Outlook express too) had an option to delete the key when it was exported, you could try that. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/ Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior crypto engineer, Celo Communications: http://www.celocom.com/ Core developer of the OpenSSL project: http://www.openssl.org/ Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: via homepage. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
