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Bob_May_78337
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Jun 25, 2014

LTM Certificates Installation, without a key

I am having consistent issues with our internal CA admins who continually issue certificate without keys. Can the LTM's support a certificate without a key or is it required to have an associating ke...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Jun 25, 2014

Well two things:

 

  1. You absolutely need the private key in the LTM SSL config.

     

  2. It's highly unlikely (let's say cryptographically impossible) that the CA admins are issuing PKI certs without keys. It's more plausible that they're issuing certs and just not giving you and/or exporting the private key.