Coronel Persk wrote:
> 
> Ive heard that putting these two files into one reduces its security to
> zero since Im sending my private key together. Is that true?
> 

Including your *CA certificate* private key does indeed reduce the CA
security to zero.

However if you want mozilla to be able to use your certificate you have
to include the *user certificate* private key.

Steve.
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