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Can you generate a certificate on one platform, send in the certificate request, and expect to be able to successfully install and use the certificate on a totally different platform? After reading "Digital IDs" (March Web P roject), I wasn't certain whether the certificate is bound to be used on the platform on which it is generated.
David Milewich
drmilewich@tasc.com

Certificate use is not bound by the format of the request, but by the fact that the key you send off to be signed lives in the key database of the system on which you generate the signing request.--Jon Udell, executive editor

Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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