help on setting certificate on ovpn files to .zip

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cheater23
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help on setting certificate on ovpn files to .zip

Post by cheater23 » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:34 am

how can i encrypt my ovpn certificate / put a password thru .zip files so that they can't view my certificate

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Re: help on setting certificate on ovpn files to .zip

Post by ordex » Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:23 pm

are you talking about the private key? because certificates are public by design. One way is to bundle them in an encrypted PKCS#12 file. That is the standard. You can ask your PKI admin to provide you one or you can create it with the openssl command line tool.

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