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Importing the personal certificate (fails). Why?
 
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I just got my personal certificate from Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA (Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. ZA).
I used Opera v8.51 to enroll and retrieve the certificate.

Is it possible to import it into the Bat!'s certificate store?

Opera knows these formats to export the certificate:
*.usr ; X509
*.p7s ; PKCS #7 signed
*.p7  ; PKCS #7
*.p12 : PKCS #12 with private key
*.pem ; PEM

When I try to import *.usr or *.pem they get imported but the Bat! regards them as being invalid - "The issuer of this certificate chain is not found" is said in the viewer.

Then I try *.p7 and *.p7s - these fail with error messages regarding corrupted or not a valid file.

When I try to import *.p12 then the Bat! asks me to "Input password to decrypt data stored in my-cert.p12." in it's Input PFX password dialog.
I enter the pasword I used when I was enrolling (and which Opera happily accepted when exporting the data) - the Bat! says it was invalid, and import fails.

Which password is the Bat! asking me for?

Why the *.usr and *.pem are considered invalid when I can see the Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA in the Trusted Root CA's list?
winXP-SP3 Pro, the Bat! v4.0.38
 
 
 
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Hi

I used the P12 format to export from Firefox and it imported OK into TB.  The password dialogue did come up several times however and at first I thought that TB wasn't accepting it.  Then I realised that the Password requester was actually asking for the password to decrypt   different parts of the cert.  I just kept entering the password when prompted and eventually it imported AOK

HTH

Adam
 
 
 
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Yes, it was 100% my own fault.
I selected 20-character password when I enrolled for the certificate, and while Opera asked me for it once to export *.p12 and I choose the same 20-character password to protect the private key, I was somehow inaccurate and inattentive when I typed the password in the Bat!... :( (I made several attempts though...)

Once I noticed that the dialog header has changed and the Bat! was actually asking me the next password - I managed to keep the concentration and made no typos - the certificate is now imported and works fine.

I'm very happy with the Bat! really!

RE *.usr and *.pem files: these were regarded as invalid because I (by mistake) erased all the Intermediate CA entryes from the address book... My fault again...
winXP-SP3 Pro, the Bat! v4.0.38
 
 
 
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