Reconver SSL private key?

I have a bit of a dilemma since I tried to install an SSL certificate on my server that needs intermediate certs. Here's what I did:
1) In Server Admin, create a new key for my domain and use that key to create a CSR to send to a certificate authority. (This creates a public key, a private key and a self-signed certificate in the system keychain on the server).
2) Sent the CSR away and got the signed certificate back.
3) Used Server Admin to add the signed certificate to the existing domain cert (this replaces the self-signed cert). Restart services etc.
Here's the problem: the cert that I have needs intermediate certs installed in order to be functional- currently the certificate shows as an untrusted authority. If I delete the current certificate in Server Admin to start again from scratch, it will delete the private key that I need to reinstall. I downloaded the intermediate certificates from the CA's website, but now the certificate installed on the server can't be modified. Besides, there is no place to enter the intermediate certificates. My plan was to try to paste all the certs into the box where it asks for the new certificate, but no joy since it is now locked.
I would like to create a new certificate (there is a place in there to install intermediate certs), but I'll need to get my private key out of Keychain Access into a pem formatted file but I can't seem to get the thing to export.
Questions:
1) Is there a way to export a private key from Keychain Access so that it can be used for server admin?
2) Is there a way to get at this from the command line?
3) Is there some other procedure that can magically fix this problem?
Thanks,
Miles

Thanks,
This is the part that I was looking for:
Launch Keychain Access as root:
sudo /Applications/Utilities/Keychain\ Access.app/Contents/MacOS/Keychain\ Access &
I then went here http://www.gridsite.org/wiki/Convert_p12 and converted the p12 to pem so I could use it in server admin.
Thanks again,
Miles

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Thanks Tony - it worked!!
"Tony" <TonyV> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
It may be because the private key is both unprotected and in DER format.
There are some things to try:
1) Convert the private key file from a DER file to a PEM file and try
that:
a) Follow the for converting an unprotected private key at:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/adminguide/utils.html#1143743
b) Look at the resulting PEM file, it should look something like
this:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
(Be sure there is no extra lines or whitespace after thefooter)
>
c) Change your configuration to point at the PEM file
If that doesn work, then you can try protecting the key with apassword
using
the wlkeytool utility (It should be in the server/bin directory). The
tool should prompt
for a password to use to protect it:
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the passwod to use.
Tony
"Makoto Suzuki" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hello everyone,
I'm trying to upgrade a WLS 6.1 SP2 with WLP 4.0 SP2 instance to WLS 7.0SP2
with WLP 7.0 SP2. Everythng is fine except for that we cannot use the
same
SSL certificate. By defaul the private key is not encrypted withpassword
(SSL.KeyEncrypted = false by default, according to the documentations)in
both WLS 6.1 and WLS 7.0. But running WLS 7.0 startup script resultsthe
following error:
<Sep 17, 2003 5:06:40 PM HST> <Alert> <WebLogicServer> <000297>
<Inconsistent se
curity configuration, java.lang.Exception: Cannot read private key fromfile
C:\
bea7\user_projects\agencyPortal\portal_islandinsurance_com-key.der. Make
sure pa
ssword specified in environment property weblogic.management.pkpassword
is
valid
.>
java.lang.Exception: Cannot read private key from file
C:\bea7\user_projects\age
ncyPortal\portal_islandinsurance_com-key.der. Make sure passwordspecified
in en
vironment property weblogic.management.pkpassword is valid.
at
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atweblogic.t3.srvr.SSLListenThread.<init>(SSLListenThread.java:153)
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at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.resume(T3Srvr.java:852)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:295)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
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password? It was working, although the KeyEncrypted is not set to true
and
the startup script for WLS 6.1 instance did have a line
with -Dweblogic.management.pkpassword. Or could this error be result of
something else? The physical machine the instances are located is thesame
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[ssldebuglog.txt]

"Mallik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
I am trying to install weblogic generated ssl certificate and because theprivate
key needs to be encrypted with a password, i am loading this in a new JDKkeystore
and trying to configure WL.
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X:\SSLTest>java utils.CertGen testpassword testcert testkey
Creating Domestic Key Strength - 1024
..... Certificate CommonName will contain Hostname KUNDULA_M-DGS
Encoding
Try this on 8.1 and see if it works. There was a bug fix with respect to "_"
in hostnames.

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889651
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Client code does not contain any default truststore and needs a certificate for authentication.Of course it does. OpenSSL has a way of doing that: some kind of equivalent for the truststore. None of the stuff you've posted here about generating certificates at runtime has any bearing on that problem.
It's like this. The idea of PKI with SSL is as follows:
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- the server sends its cert to the client along with a digital signature signed by its private key.
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At this point the server is authenticated to the client and the SSL connection is open. It can now be used as an ordinary socket connection.
If you want client authentication too, you need all the above in reverse as well, i.e. reading server for client and client for server throughout. Note particularly that each client must have its own private key. Otherwise the private key isn't private, so signing something with it doesn't establish ownership, so client authentication isn't valid.
You need to understand all this stuff and relate it to the apparently broken security design of your application. Generating a private key and a certificate at runtime is complete nonsense within the context of PKI and SSL. It proves nothing, establishes nothing, authenticates nothing; it just wastes time.

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Hi,
We develop a server-side application which receives incoming https connections using self-signed certificate. It was all ok while we were using Windows 7 or Windows 2008 as OS, but when our clients started installing Windows 8 as server OS they encountered
big problem: application got unavailable in few hours after start.
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After restart, application recreates certificate and all works normal few hours till next fatal error.
This
article did not help us. And I repeat that this error appears only on Windows 8 (we tested on Windows 8.1). Windows 2012 Server we did not test yet.
How we can solve this problem?
Best regards.

Hi,
Since this article released in 2008,I suspect the code mentioned in this article doesn't supprot Windows 8.
And since the certificate was written by C#,I suggest you submit a new case on MSDN Forum as they will be more professional on your issue:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home
Regards,
Kelvin hsu
TechNet Community Support

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-- POCO

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Does BEA have an API I can use to customize the WebLogic Server startup? Ihave
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