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Ian Clysdale (iancly@entrust.com)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:59:13 -0400
No, Netscape and IE use slightly different versions of the PKCS-12 spec.
I believe that it has to do with the hashing performed on the stored
certificates - Peter Gutman wrote a very indepth article on IE's behaviour
in this case a couple months ago that people probably have copies of still
floating around.
ian
> ----------
> From: kriston@ibm.net[SMTP:kriston@ibm.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 9:24 AM
> To: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: Personal Certificates between Netscape and MSIE/Outlook
>
> Hi, I have a personal certificate that I created with Netscape
> Communicator. I have followed the instructions to export the
> certificate to a file, and then tried to use MSIE 4/Outlook98 to import
> the certificate back into those programs and it always says "The file
> is in an invalid format".
>
> What am I doing wrong? Aren't you supposed to be able to convert
> certificates between Netscape and MSIE/Outlook? Have these two
> programs become incompatible? I understand that this used to work,
> since exporting the cert exports both the private and public keys in
> an encrypted format. One of either Netscape or MSIE has changed
> something to break this code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kris
>
> PS...Sorry if this is slightly off-topic!
>
> --
> Kriston J. Rehberg
> AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/
>
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:23 ADT