#38 Cannot export private certificate key

[Chris Davies]

I have a certificate chain of Master CA -> Website master CA > Server certificate. The first time I use "export" something useful seems to happen and I appear to end up with a password protected private key. The second and subsequent time I use "export" I get two of four options (only export public certificate, or export unencrypted private key). However, the export unencrpyted key fails with an error, "The file designated in the database contains a private key but it is not the private key corresponding to the certificate". I am then asked to provide a private key file, and there appears to be none available.

Is the private key not held in the gnoMINT database already? Or is the first private key export (the only one that succeeds) the only place that the private key is stored? I'm somewhat confused by this as it's counter-intuitive to me.

Thanks.

Debian gnomint (1.2.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
* Merging upstream version 1.2.1.
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:12:30 +0200

[David Marín (DaveFX)]

Sorry, but it seems that the first time you pressed "Extract private key" instead of "Export".

You can extract any private key to an external file, perhaps to a USB-drive, or remote mounted drive. After doing that, the private key is deleted from the internal database, and a link to that external file is kept, so gnoMint will try to access to the extracted key whenever it is needed.