CERTAUTH certificate's Private Key is not returned

Products

• ACF2
• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

Under what conditions will a CERTAUTH certificate's( ie. CERTAUTH.CERT1 that has a private key) private key be returned when the client/server task starts and R_datalib  calls are made requesting the Keyring and certificates.

Resolution

If a CERTAUTH certificate ie CERTAUTH.cert1 is connected to a keyring with USAGE(PERSONAL) the private key(if it has one) of the certificate will be returned from the R_datalib call, if the same certificate is connected to the Keyring with USAGE(CERTAUTH) the private key will not be returned.