Thanx for the prompt reply Michael. Please correct me in my understanding of this PKI concept: Part #1 I understand that the certificate contains public key only. Now say I want to send a mail to a collegue of mine. He sends across a certificate to me containing his public key. All I need to do is to import the certificate in my personals list and the next time I try to send the person an encrypted mail, my outlook application shall encrypt it using the public key from the cert.
Part #2 But yes, if am trying to import a certificate for myself, then ofcourse I need to import the certificate along with the private key. But how do I do that. I mean I have the user.key file and the user.crt file. Now how do I import the two and protect my private key... Thanx & regards, Sasi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [Openca-Users] Editing Certicate file on windows gets it recognized > > Sasidharan schrieb: > > > Now though my certificate file got recognized. But now when I I import > > the certificate in outlookexpress, the certicate is not shown in the > > list of certificates though a successfully installed message is shown. > > A simple question - where is your private key? > > > Has anybody faced a similar problem while trying to import a > > certificate on windows. Can anybody throw some light on it. > > Or is there a specific format in which a certificate created using > > OpenCA can be directly imported on windows. > > The problem is that you are using OpenCA in a way which was never > planned. All userinteraction should be done via the web and not by > exchanging some files which you can find in our directorystructure. > > Michael > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Bell Email (private): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rechenzentrum - Datacenter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Humboldt-University of Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30-2093 2482 > Unter den Linden 6 Fax: +49 (0)30-2093 2959 > 10099 Berlin > Germany http://www.openca.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > In remembrance > www.osdn.com/911/ > _______________________________________________ > Openca-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-users ------------------------------------------------------- In remembrance www.osdn.com/911/ _______________________________________________ Openca-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-users
