public and private cert

[azlan]

Dear Sir,
May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?
Thanks

 

[Brian Komar]

Re: public and private cert

There is no such thing as public and private certificates.
There are private keys and public keys. I would recommend looking at Polk
and Housley's book "Planning for PKI: Best Practices Guide for Deploying
Public Key Infrastructure" for details.
Brian

"azlan" <azlan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Sir,
> May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?
> Thanks

 

[azlan]

Re: public and private cert



"Brian Komar" wrote:

> There is no such thing as public and private certificates.
> There are private keys and public keys. I would recommend looking at Polk
> and Housley's book "Planning for PKI: Best Practices Guide for Deploying
> Public Key Infrastructure" for details.
> Brian
>
> "azlan" <azlan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E4383E10-F8C8-4E1E-A32E-12B6C06A38A1@microsoft.com...
> > Dear Sir,
> > May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?
> > Thanks
>

 

[Alun Jones]

Re: public and private cert

"azlan" <azlan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E4383E10-F8C8-4E1E-A32E-12B6C06A38A1@microsoft.com...
> Dear Sir,
> May i know how to differentiate between these two certificate?

All certificates are public.

Some are associated - in the certificate store - with a private key. This
does not make the certificate a "private certificate", because there is no
such thing - it makes it a pairing of a certificate with an associated
public key.

To tell if you have a private key associated with a certificate, open the
certificate, and see if the text "You have a private key that corresponds to
this certificate" is displayed.

Alun.
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