Hi Joachim, On 6/16/05, Joachim Buechse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The file from Thawte does not contain your private key. To get the private key you need to install the certificate in your browser and then export it. Regards Morgan ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
