Problem :
This is a classical Catch-22 situation. I was using online banking the other day under Chrome. I had to order a digital certificate so that I could extend my privileges. The stupid thing is that when I got approved and opened the certificate installation menu, I saw only versions for IE/Firefox available. What the heck, I said, and chose FF – the result I got was Error 202 – ERR:CERT:INVALID. I opened FF, got to the same page, and tried to install the damn thing from there, but got a message basically saying that I must have been given a private key which obviously FF doesn’t find.
I read a bit, and it turned out that I really must have been given such a key but only to the browser that I ordered the cert with, i.e. Chrome. The worst thing is that if I deactivate my order, and reissue a new cert, this time from FF, I MUST go to a bank office (!!!WTF), but I am currently studying abroad, so I can’t just go back.
Is there a way, that I could extract that key from Chrome’s profile, and import it into FF under Windows ? I will be glad to know
Solution :
Chrome uses the same Windows certificate store as Internet Explorer, so:
a) Try using IE to install your new certificate, then export it from Certificate Manager.
b) Run Certificate Manager and open Certificate Enrollment Requests – the private key should be there, although I have no idea how to import it to Firefox so that it would accept the issued certificate later.