How to Recreate A Broken SSL Certificate Private Key

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Tip 1 - How to Recreate A Broken SSL Certificate Private Key | eHow

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jerry Mark | permalink

Occasionally a SSL certificate will become corrupt or install without a properly generated private key. When this happens it will often no longer function with IIS or other web servers.Here is how to recreate the private key for the SSL certificate.

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_5071448_recreate-ssl-certificate-private-key.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - Should I change the private key when renewing a certificate?

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by John Stulak | permalink

My security department insists that I (the system administrator) make a new private key when I want a SSL certificate renewed for our web servers. They claim it's best practice, but my googling att...

For further reading: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/27810/should-i-change-the-private-key-when-renewing-a-certificate ^[2]