EFS AND CERTIFICATES
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Joe
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:12 pm    Post subject: EFS AND CERTIFICATES Reply with quote
Hi All,



Have been studying Win XP Pro's EFS functionality. Just got a quick
question. I always thought that a certificate was made up of a users public
and private key but now I'm not so sure.



Could someone clarify for me what makes up a certificate, and what is in a
..cer file and what is in a a .pfx file.



Many thanks.



Chris
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Jan Peter Stotz
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:37 pm    Post subject: Re: EFS AND CERTIFICATES Reply with quote
Joe schrieb:

Quote:
Could someone clarify for me what makes up a certificate, and what is in a
.cer file and what is in a a .pfx file.

A .cer file always contains exactly one certificate (and the certificate
contains one public key signed by the authority that created the
certificate).
A .pfy or .p12 file can contain more than one certificate (eg a complete
certificate chain to a trusted root) and additional it can contain the
corresponding private key for a certificate.

Jan
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