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bigipjr28_13978
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Mar 26, 2015

ssl offloading question

Hey guys,   Silly question not sure why I am guessing myself here. But, on the LTM the ssl profile - client and in the certificates that get uploaded to the ltms, they contain only the private key...
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Brad_Parker
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Mar 26, 2015

When viewing the "key" of the cert, that is the private key. When viewing the "certificate", that is your public key. Keys(Private key) does not get generated by the cert(public key), its the other way around. You generate a private key. Then you create a CSR using that private key to request a corresponding public key to be issue from a CA(certificate authority).