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Exporting your new digital ID from other applications (if necessary)

Again, if you use Safari, you can skip both this and the next step, as your certificate and private key will already be installed into your keychain.

NOTE: For some corporate users, if you choose to obtain your certificate through your company's internal website using MS Outlook, you may not be able to export the digital ID into your Mac. The reason is that these servers may have a policy set that will prevent you from exporting your private key once the CA signs and issues your certificate.

If exporting digital ID using Windows IE: After going to the website and requesting/retrieving a certificate for the private key you generated on your Windows machine, you want to export the digital ID into a PKCS #12 file (.p12) . To do this:

  1. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Options
  2. Click on the Content tab
  3. Click on Certificates button
  4. Under the Personal tab, click to highlight the certificate you requested above
  5. Click the Export button
  6. Click Next and follow the Export Wizard
  7. When asked, choose the option "Yes, export the private key"
  8. Give the file a password. Since this file contains your private key, it potentially will contain very sensitive information…you'll therefore want to password protect it to keep others from viewing it, even if they somehow obtained access to the file. As with all passwords, choose a strong password (letters, numbers, printable symbols) that is not easily guessable but that you won't forget either.
  9. When it asks for PKCS #12 options, choose to include all certificates in the path if possible. The other options don't really matter. If you wish to delete the private key after export, you can also choose that option.
  10. Give the file a name, and finish the Export Wizard

If exporting digital ID using Mozilla/Netscape: After going to the website and requesting and obtaining a certificate for the private key you generated in Mail, you want to export the {private key + certificate} pair (digital ID) into a PKCS #12 file (.p12). To do this:

  1. In Mail, go into Preferences (location of this menu item depends on the platform)
  2. Click on the "Privacy & Security" category, and choose "Certificates"
  3. Click on the "Manage Certificates" button
  4. By default, the "Your Certificates" tab (your digital IDs) should appear; select the ID you want to export and click the "Backup" button
  5. Name it, tell it where to save to, and click "Save"
  6. Enter the Master password for your Mozilla security device and click OK.
  7. Now give the file a password; this will protect the file (specifically, your private key) from being read without authorization
  8. OK out of all dialogs