Code signing question

[David Dunham]

On 18 Dec 2007, at 14:27, Edward J. Stembler wrote:

> I imported my certificate from a .p7b file.
>
> When I created a sample self-signed root certificate -- which  
> worked -- I noticed the private key is part of the certificate in  
> the keychain.  My imported Authenticode certificate doesn't show a  
> private key in the keychain.  I know on the Windows side, the  
> private key was stored in a separate (binary) file; something  
> like:  myprivatekey.pvk.


I have a self-signing root certificate as well; I ended up with  
certificate, public key, and private key in my keychain.

I just noticed a "PvkTmp..." private key. It's possible this is from  
myprivatekey.pvk. I don't know where those files came from in the  
first place.

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