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 15:07:39 -0600
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Setting up Mac Mail for CAC Signing & Encryption
This is definitely worth filing under "Things to remember..."
When I am trying to clean out a cert that was added, and re-install it into
the keychain, I should be deleting the cert, and the private and public
keys. Once all these are gone, I can try adding the cert again.
Thanks!
Paul
> From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:12:08 -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:
>> So deleting the cert doesn't delete the private keys?
>
> Not unless you specifically do so. You should keep the private key so
> you can continue to access data encrypted with the public key. By
> itself it's pretty useless, except to generate signatures (which need a
> valid certificate to validate).
>
> They're kept under the Keys section of your keychain.
>
> -- Tim
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