Mlai,

Not certain, but it appears that "free" certificates might be a part of
history, hence, the real source for your conflict.

Although, one Site from the previously provided Link does offer free certs
for "personal" use.
--
Firewall

Disclaimer:
Accept Vista as it is, or, Abandon Vista


"mlai" wrote:

> Secured Email. I try to sign all the emails that I send to people so that
> my friends and business associates knows that the message is genuine from
> myself.
>
> "FireWall2" <FireWall2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news06C5B1D-87CC-4BF4-A7F6-3CE288A83EFE@microsoft.com...
> >
> > Hello Mlai,
> >
> > Curiosity has got the best of me, what is your intended purpose for
> > importing free certs from Thawte ?
> >
> > Reluctant for sharing suggestions not knowing your desired outcome.
> >
> > --
> > Firewall
> >
> >
> > "mlai" wrote:
> >
> >> Just an observation:
> >> I tried obtaining SSL certs with Vista thru Thawte (their free personal
> >> email certs). I had to put www.thawte.com in a Trusted Zone and disable
> >> protected mode for the trusted zone for it to work. However, when I
> >> import
> >> the issued certificates, I do not get an option to mark the private key
> >> as
> >> exportable and consequently, I cannot export the cert for backup and
> >> installation on my laptop.
> >>
> >> If I request the cert from XPSP2 (also IE7), I can mark the cert as
> >> exportable and can export the cert in PFX format to be used on another
> >> machine. The process is completely identical but it works on XPSP2 but
> >> not
> >> Vista RTM (I am on x64).
> >>
> >> Can anybody shed some light on this? It will be a major problem as I
> >> will
> >> be moving to a pure Vista environment soon for my home network (which has
> >> 7
> >> machines......)
> >>
> >> Please help.
> >> TIA.
> >>
>