----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vadim Fedukovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Converting own CA certificate to pkcs12


> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:50:37PM -0500, Chris Jarshant wrote:
> > You can't convert a public key certificate into a PKCS12 file -
> > the openssl pkcs12 routine *requires* a private key to be in such
> > a file along with the public key, which you cannot have (CAs don't
> > give out their private keys).
> > 
> > cj
> 
> well, given enough interest one still can do that.
> Just write the tool.   "openssl pkcs12" is not the only game in the city
> and pkcs12 specs allow for just a certificate

Yep.. I did that on day 2 of my project, after realizing what
'openssl pkcs12' does (or doesn't do, as in this case)
(open source *is* handy after all :-) )

cj

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