[thelist] Certificate Theft ramifications

Paul Cowan paul at wishlist.com.au
Tue Mar 5 18:34:01 CST 2002


Judah wrote:
> Likely, nothing.  Neither the cert request nor the
> certificate contains the private key used to generate the request.

Sorry, my mistake. Not reading the question correctly, I thought Joshua
meant "what happens if the private key is compromised" -- I wasn't paying
attention to which files he was talking about.

Ooops, that will teach me not to pay attention.

(what I said still stands if your private key is stolen though)

Paul.



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