Comments on: Snow Leopard Certificate Sillyness

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:19:56 +0000

Thanks for the hint, I was going crazy about this problem… I have tried the import as you suggested, but it failed, only certificates but no identities were imported. In order to make it work I had to change the command line to:

security import startssl-smime-cert.p12 -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain -f pkcs12

and it worked.

By: me@gavinadams.org

me@gavinadams.org — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:02:31 +0000

Thanks for the comment Alan. I never tried the “backup all” option in Firefox. Heck, never would have thunk of it. I wonder what the difference in the saved certificate is compared to export.

Having done some work for a bank recently, the whole EV certificate issue has focused my attention on the whole “assurance industry.”

By: Alan Levin

Alan Levin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:12:56 +0000

Hi, I’m using 10.6.2 and never had this problem. Took me many months to work out that the way to export from Firefox was NOT to chose export but rather select ‘backup all’. The rest was a breeze (if you remember to restart mail). Thanks for the inspiration though. Look forward to the “opinion piece of certificate authorities in general and digital certificates, SSL, S/MIME, and all that rot”