Importing your new verisign/thawte certificate

When you get your certificate from one of these companies, when using the keytool -import option, must you chose the 'trustcacerts' option?? When i have been importing the cerificate i get the error its not trusted......

Question about the certificate you are importing... Did you generate a key, export a request, submit it to Verisign and are now importing the response. Or are you trying to import another type of Certificate from Verisign like an HHTPS SSL Cert for a web site?
When you import a certificate (not a signing response) from verisign in general it should look like:
Owner: C=.....
Issuer: CN=Verisign....
Serial number: 3294872342984...
Valid from: Tue Sep 25 20:00:00 EDT 2001 until: Thu Sep 26 19:59:59 EDT 2002
Certificate fingerprints:
MD5: D4:3D....
SHA1: D3:4E:F1....
Trust this certificate? [no]:
When you import an un-verified cert is should look like:
Owner: CN=x, OU=x, O=x, L=x, ST=x, C=x
Issuer: CN=x, OU=x, O=x, L=x, ST=x, C=x
Serial number: 3bd99f85
Valid from: Fri Oct 26 13:38:13 EDT 2001 until: Thu Jan 24 12:38:13 EST 2002
Certificate fingerprints:
MD5: A8:D4:94:A3:23:2C:D5:CA:9D:AA:F0:66:50:43:EB:33
SHA1: D2:E0:DA:4D:DA:8F:EC:1B:CA:B3:5C:C0:B0:F4:F2:DC:44:3A:0F:A1
Trust this certificate? [no]:
When you import a response it will look like this:
Top-level certificate in reply:
Owner: CN=VeriSign Class 3 CA - Commercial Content/Software Publisher, OU="www.verisign.com/repository/RPA Incorp. by Ref.,LIAB.LTD(c)98", OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc."
Issuer: OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification uthority, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US
Serial number: 3492xxxx
Valid from: Wed Dec 30 19:00:00 EST 1998 until: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 EST 2008
Certificate fingerprints:
MD5: D7:B0:C6:xxxxx
SHA1: FE:A4:A8:8A:xxxxxxx
... is not trusted. Install reply anyway? [no]:
Does this help?

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> My web app team have just bought a new verisign ssl certicate.
> What do i do from here to renew the webaccess application with the new
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>
> Anything that can help with this regarding webaccess and verisign ssl
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You do not have to move it as such. Here are the steps to setup HomeSharing
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You shouldn't have to do anything with the X509Anchors keychain. The X509Anchors keychain contains certificate authority (CA) certificates, i.e., certificates associated with CA's that sign certificates. In it you'll find various CA certificates for thawte among others.
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I'm using WebLogic 7.0 and need to figure out how to install the SSL certificate.
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Hello Patrick,
Thanks for the information:
you created a keypair for SSL in the Key Store service interface in the Visual Administrator, generated a CSR response and sent it to Verisign. Now you have the CSR response from Verisign - is my understanding of the situation correct?
Absolutely right
You can import this into the Key Store service, by highlighting the private key of the keypair and choosing 'Import CSR Response'. Now your key pair is signed.
Successfully done.
After this i can see that PRIVATE KEY (IssueDN has been changed to Verisign)
But CERTIFICATE ISSUER DN is not changed.
Now if i try to access the site with https, able to do properly and if click on the Lock icon on the browser, i can see certificate is 3 Chained
Verisign Trial Secure Server Root CA - G2
----> Verisign Trial Secure Server CA - G2
----> -> Training.pearson.com (this is my Common Name)
So it looks to be working fine.
However there is no chain formed. You need to now follow the aforementioned note and export the private key and public key certificate separately by higlighting the private key and choosing 'Export'. Export with the 'Files of type' drop down box set to (*p8), and after exporting the private key you will be able to export the public key cert. This is step 6 and 7 of the note. Now follow steps 8-12 to form the chain
No Chains has been made in Visual Admin, and i tried these on another server - it works as you are saying.
But is there any benefit of importing Intermediate, Root Certificates - as mentioned in SAP note steps 8 to 12.
If yes, then is it mandatory to make the chain till 3rd level (means Root Certificate also).
Once the chain is loaded into the Key Store, you need to ensure that the Java dispatcher is configured to send the signed server certificate for the relevant SSL ports - see here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5c/15f73dd0408e5be10000000a114084/content.htm
Edited by: Julius Bussche on Aug 10, 2009 3:44 PM
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Hello Patrick,
Thanks for the information:
you created a keypair for SSL in the Key Store service interface in the Visual Administrator, generated a CSR response and sent it to Verisign. Now you have the CSR response from Verisign - is my understanding of the situation correct?
Absolutely right
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Successfully done.
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But CERTIFICATE ISSUER DN is not changed.
Now if i try to access the site with https, able to do properly and if click on the Lock icon on the browser, i can see certificate is 3 Chained
Verisign Trial Secure Server Root CA - G2
----> Verisign Trial Secure Server CA - G2
----> -> Training.pearson.com (this is my Common Name)
So it looks to be working fine.
However there is no chain formed. You need to now follow the aforementioned note and export the private key and public key certificate separately by higlighting the private key and choosing 'Export'. Export with the 'Files of type' drop down box set to (*p8), and after exporting the private key you will be able to export the public key cert. This is step 6 and 7 of the note. Now follow steps 8-12 to form the chain
No Chains has been made in Visual Admin, and i tried these on another server - it works as you are saying.
But is there any benefit of importing Intermediate, Root Certificates - as mentioned in SAP note steps 8 to 12.
If yes, then is it mandatory to make the chain till 3rd level (means Root Certificate also).
Once the chain is loaded into the Key Store, you need to ensure that the Java dispatcher is configured to send the signed server certificate for the relevant SSL ports - see here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5c/15f73dd0408e5be10000000a114084/content.htm
Edited by: Julius Bussche on Aug 10, 2009 3:44 PM
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How to get your contacts to your new phone

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My iphone 5 was replaced today because of a faulty power button. I had done an iTunes backup this morning, choosing to backup iTunes purchases and the apps as well.
In order to restore the backup to my new phone I had to set it up as a new phone and update to 7.1.2. All good so far.
I then chose to restore from backup (dated today) and it all seemed fine until the restore was complete and the iphone restarted and I was taken back to the 'Welcome to Your New iPhone' screen. Thankfully my photos and contacts have come across but none of my iTunes library, emails or most of my apps. What I'd really like to retrieve are the notes I had in Notemaster...lots of important details about trip bookings, finances etc.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/imac.html
[email protected]
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Wow, that's something totally different from the 1.1-freeze issue. I've not heard about that on the iMacs until now.

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4. Deleted pLists and opened iPhoto. No help.
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7. Ran iPLM and I can access ALL of the events and photos. (This is where the last discussion ended.)
8. Imported more photos from my iPhone and “poof” no more photos seen in iPhoto. I Go back to step 7 and wait 1.5 hours for a rebuild in iPLM.
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Tony:
It could be that the card has been compromised and iPhoto doesn't recognize it. Open Image Capture and see if you can upload the photos to a folder on the desktop. If that can be done reformat the card with the camera, take a couple of test shots and try again.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Lost all photos on my iPhoto and get the ERROR WRITING TO DISK when trying to reload from Time Machine. iPhoto cannot import your photos because there was a problem writing to the volume containing your iPHOTO LIBRARY . Looking for solution.

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Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
First, empty the Trash, if possible.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ 2>&- | wc -l | pbcopy
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be a number. It's automatically copied to the Clipboard. Please paste it into a reply.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

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