Re: [Fed-Talk] Setting up Mac Mail for CAC Signing & Encryption
Re: [Fed-Talk] Setting up Mac Mail for CAC Signing & Encryption
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Setting up Mac Mail for CAC Signing & Encryption
- From: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:35:49 -0600
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Setting up Mac Mail for CAC Signing & Encryption
So deleting the cert doesn't delete the private keys?
> From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:28:46 -0600
> To: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
> Cc: Brian Cadwell <email@hidden>, Scott Cote <email@hidden>,
> Apple Fed Talk <email@hidden>, "Philip ((Phil)) ((CIV)) Hopfner"
> <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Setting up Mac Mail for CAC Signing & Encryption
>
> Paul Nelson wrote:
>> I've had problems with the Keychain adding a cert if I've ever added it in
>> the past. When the cert gets added the first time, it appears in "My
>> Certificates". If I delete the cert from the Keychain, then add it again
>> (I'm importing from a file) the cert gets added to "Certificates" instead,
>> and I can't use it for signing/encryption. This is really irritating, and
>> I'm guessing it's a bug in the Keychain Access application.
>
> That sounds like you deleted the private key with the cert. If you did
> and later re-import just the cert, Keychain Access knows it's not yours
> because you don't have the private key.
>
> Alternately, the act of deletion may break the association between
> private key and cert in Keychain Access, which leads to the same
> result--Keychain Access doesn't know where the corresponding private key
> is, so it assumes the cert isn't yours.
>
> I may have to experiment.
>
> -- Tim
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