RE: Personal Certificates between Netscape and MSIE/Outlook

Ian Clysdale (iancly@entrust.com)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:53:17 -0400

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In Java, there is a toolkit free for non-commercial use from some university
in Austria (http://jcewww.iaik.tu-graz.ac.at/) which can read in both forms
of PKCS-12 requests - it should be very easy using that to write code to do
translations.

                                Hope that helps...
                                                ian

> ----------
> From: kriston@ibm.net[SMTP:kriston@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 12:55 PM
> To: Ian Clysdale
> Cc: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: RE: Personal Certificates between Netscape and MSIE/Outlook
>
> Okay, having discovered this, are there any programs to convert the
> keys from one format to another, or are the formats created in such a
> way that Netscape and/or MSIE have to create the files themselves?
>
> Kris
>
>
> Ian Clysdale writes:
> >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/
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Kriston J. Rehberg
> AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/
>

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