I cannot open my Keychain Access.

I cannot open my Keychain Access. I changed my MacOSX password and I want to erase the old keychain because I can not remember the old password and I can not even open the app... help

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Hello,
We are finding the same solution seems to work for the time being with our systems at the University I work at.
However, it is not ideal because it stops the Keychain from checking whether or not a certificate has been expired or revoked. The two settings, OSCP and CRL are both methods to make sure a certificate is still valid and should be trusted by checking up the chain to the issuer. If the issuer is on the internet and you are stuck in a captive portal then how can you check? I think Lion is getting into a catch 22 here.
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I have our network security people looking into allowing the certificate checks for our systems to go even from the captive portal. I will report back any success or failure as a workaround for this method.
Having to set machines to not check for revokation of certificates seems like one more step closer to just throwing put the whole trusted certificate idea as a usable security method.

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Thanks Terry

Hi Linc,
When l open the keychain access box the list headings when l choose passwords are
: Name| Kind | Date Modified | Keychain | and this one used to be passwords but is now blank|
but of course it had a series of dots before where the passwords should be, now there are no dots below.
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and l don`t have the option to show them from the drop down menu, so it`s not the main password but the option to remind myself what all passwords l chose
are, slightly dissconcerting to say the least.
l hope this isn`t too long winded, l wondered if l had caused this myself somehow or more worryingly someone or thing else.
Regards,
Terry
P.S. l know l can use Safari for the Safari saved passwords but that is not the point, l don`t like my mac hiding personal data from me, it seems odd .
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Thanks - I looked at several of the links, but I'm not a software engineer.
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OS X Yosemite   Ver. 10.10.2
Processor   2.8GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 12 GB 1333MHz DDR3
HD   2TB - 678GB free
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