Whenever you receive a digital certificate, it is very convenient for you to make a backup, because you never know what problems can arise both in your browser and on your PC and you lose this certificate. And to get it back, it can represent a situation that generates a lot of stress and waste of precious time.
The use of USB Flash Drive, to record or to insert data into the computer is becoming a very common way, given the almost disappearance of CDs. So it would be good if you knew the way there to create a multiboot or multiboot USB with different Windows and Linux systems step by step.
How to export a digital certificate to a USB flash drive to import it to another computer?
To export a digital certificate to a USB flash drive to import it to another computer, you need to download it to your PC first. For this we will go to our browser. And then we will explain what you should do if you have a browser other than Mozilla Firefox, about that we will explain later.
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To find out where the certificate is installed on your computer, the first thing you need to do is go to Start. Then you have to click on the Configure option, here you will have a search bar at your fingertips and write Internet Options. This action will display a box with several tabs and select Content.
The option will appear immediately Certificates in the central part, you have to click on it and you will see the Personal tab. The next step after finding the certificate is to Export it, to do that you need to click on that option. You have to follow the wizard and take it into account when you get to the password screen.
Here you will be asked a question, do you want to export the private key with the certificate? And you need to click on the Export private key option box. This is very important because if you don't select this option you will never be able to install it on any PC. This means that you will have it there, but it will have no value.
The next step will be to enter a password, write the one you like best, but you have to be careful of keep it very well and prevent it from being lost. Remember that there will be nothing to allow you to recover the certificate if you forget or lose your password. Once this is done, the wizard will ask you to choose where on your PC you will save the digital certificate.
Now you have it on your computer and you can do whatever you want with it, send it by post, you can save it on a USB stick and that way you can transfer it to another computer.
How to export a digital certificate from Mozilla Firefox
So here we are, it is because you have verified that it is in the browser and the next thing we're going to do is go to the Menu option. Then we have to select Options, in this window we will search and choose the Privacy and security option. Here is the Certificates section and we choose the View certificates option.
The next step will be to click on the Your Certificates tab and here you need to search for yours digital certificate and then you need to click on the Make a copy option. Then the wizard will ask you to choose where to save it. Then enter your password and again we will ask you to be careful with it and keep it in a safe place.
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Hello, you have already exported the digital certificate from the Mozilla Firefox browser, as you can see it didn't take long nor did it generate many problems. And in this way we have finished the following tutorial which showed you how to export a digital certificate to a USB flash drive to import it to another computer.
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