You should be able to get a collection object containing the certs in your .pfx file by using the X509Certificate2Collection class… here’s some C# example code: string certPath = <YOUR PFX FILE PATH>; string certPass = <YOUR PASSWORD>; // Create a collection object and populate it using the PFX file X509Certificate2Collection collection = new X509Certificate2Collection(); … Read more
To check if your .key file has everything you need: #check if file contains a valid certificate: openssl x509 -text -in file.key It should print out certificate details. If it prints an error including the text “unable to load certificate”, then your file is not sufficient. #check if file contains a valid key: openssl rsa … Read more
Use the local computer store for the private key: X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(“myhost.pfx”, “pass”, X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet); MachineKeySet is described as “private keys are stored in the local computer store rather than the current user store”. The default with no flags is to place in the user store. Even though you are reading the certificate from … Read more
PFX files are PKCS#12 Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard bundles. They can include arbitrary number of private keys with accompanying X.509 certificates and a certificate authority chain (set certificates). If you want to extract client certificates, you can use OpenSSL’s PKCS12 tool. openssl pkcs12 -in input.pfx -out mycerts.crt -nokeys -clcerts The command above will output … Read more
Another perspective for doing it on Linux… here is how to do it so that the resulting single file contains the decrypted private key so that something like HAProxy can use it without prompting you for passphrase. openssl pkcs12 -in file.pfx -out file.pem -nodes Then you can configure HAProxy to use the file.pem file. This … Read more
I was running into this problem as well. I was able to resolve the issue by running sn -i <KeyFile> <ContainerName> (installs key pair into a named container). sn is usually installed as part of a Windows SDK. For example C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\sn.exe. Most likely this location is not on the search … Read more