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Re: Security certificates for all my browsers

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You canOn Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:51:15 GMT, kathy <nospam@mail.invalid>
wrote:

>Would Microsoft's updates to a PC's certificates also work for my non-
>Microsoft browsers?  
>
>I don't know exactly how certificates work except that there is some 
>hierarchy of trusted certificate providers.
>
>As I understand it sometimes there are oversights in checking in which 
>certificate providers got authorized, so updates have to be downloaded by 
>PCs to let the PC know the latest list of trusted certificates.
>
>I run XP and Microsoft's updater provides me with updates to security 
>certificates.
>
>My question is ....... would Microsoft's updates to a PC's certificates 
>also work for my non-Microsoft browsers?  
>
>I run Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Do I need to do update their certificates 
>individually or would the Microsoft update also be used by them?
You can try exporting the set of Microsoft certificates and importing
them into your other browsers.  This seems to work for root
certificates as well as personal certificates.

Export your certificates(if any) in the .p12 format and  your private
keys can be transferred from Firefox to Chrome and Opera.
Ed

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Security certificates for all my browsers kathy <nospam@mail.invalid> - 2011-11-11 10:51 +0000
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> - 2011-11-11 09:32 -0500
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2011-11-11 12:23 -0600
    Re: Security certificates for all my browsers Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-11-11 16:48 -0500
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> - 2011-11-11 18:25 +0000
  Re: Security certificates for all my browsers Edward Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net> - 2011-11-12 06:07 -0500

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