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You can certainly go through the process of: openssl genrsa.

Since the javascript has access to the generated key, it could conceivably send it over the internet.įinal bit of info, is there a generic tool to do this in Linux? Not to my knowledge. The key is generated locally, however, it is hard to tell whether or not the key is also sent to the CA for "archival" as in generateCRMFRequest. These are entirely non-standard extensions, and according to this post on the CA/Browser forum, not the future. I haven't looked but I imagine Safari has some level of support too. Similar things can be achieved with Internet Explorer. An overview of the process is given by the deprecated Javascript_crypto documentation for Firefox. I am taking a slight guess, however, I suspect that in browser is using generateCRMFRequest and importUserCertificate in combination. Here's another doc from a Mac perspective about exporting the private key, but again doesn't go into how the key gets there in the first place. Here's an article explaining how to export the private key under windows, but unfortunately doesn't explain how the private key got there either.

cer file contains a certificate with CN=MyNameHere (the user), an Issuing CA certificate belonging to $company, and an Intermediate CA certificate also belonging to $company. Is there some trigger when imported that tells Keychain to go and fetch a private key from the PKI server? Is there any generic tool (e.g. cer file (which appears to be 3 certificates bundled in PKCS#7 format). Where did that private key come from? It doesn't appear in the. cer file, and when this is imported into Keychain there is a user-named Certificate and a private key linked to it. Once approved by a company admin it gives you a link which downloads a. This process involves going to a specific Symantec website (has some sort of ID to identify $company) and entering your name ("Common Name") and Email address.

$company allows Mac users to request a client certificate via Symantec PKI to connect to their SSL VPN server.