"Airey, John" wrote:
>
> We can't really answer this question without knowing whether the server name
> in the certificate matches your hostname.
The certificate matches the hostname for the site which is obvisouly
owned by our client.
>
> If it does, and if you have paid full price for the certificate, then they
> cannot normally legally withhold it as it would be your property. However,
> there might well be some restriction in your agreement with them on the
> transferring of certificates to you.
>
> Since certificates only last twelve months and cost so little compared to
> the probable legal costs I would just get another certificate if I were in
> your position. ie create a new key, then a csr and send the csr to another
> Certification Authority, eg Verisign or Thawte.
>
> General disclaimer: I am not a lawyer (but I have taken legal action in
> person that went all the way to the Court of Appeal).
>
> -
> John Airey
> Internet Systems Support Officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute for the
> Blind,
> Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
> Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 28 September 2000 09:24
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Key - Certs
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just wanting to know about about what a certificate stores...
> My
> hosting provider refuses to release our certificates, they tell us we
> need to buy new certs. I thought when a certificate is created you
> would generate a key on the server and then the authority people (we are
> in the UK so this is trustwise) would create the cert based on this
> key. Surely when the cert needs moving both the key and the cert can be
> move to and new server? The key doesn't hold any info about the isp or
> anything does it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nick.
>
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