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Manage Certificates in Google Chrome

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When managing certificates in Google Chrome settings->certificate manager->my certificates tab says:
You have certificates from these organizations it also wants me to import a certificate. It opens my home directory when I hit import button and it displays my home directory.

From seahores in ubuntu it says [email protected] is a personal PGP key under the GNUPG keys section. When i use seahorse to export it I get an xxxxx.asc file and inside it is a private key when opening it with an editor.

What do you think the Chrome browser settings is looking for me to import into it's certificates tab?

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answered 3 Years ago arkcker · Accepted Answer

It is looking for a PKCS#12 File

From Wikipedia:

In cryptography, PKCS #12 defines an archive file format for storing
many cryptography objects as a single file. It is commonly used to
bundle a private key with its X.509 certificate or to bundle all the
members of a chain of trust.

I am guessing you will be importing your private and public keys, for authentication. In a private computing environment that would just be public and private keys for the user of the system.

If you wanted to you could also set up a CA (Certificate Authority) that is set up in a server environment, or use AD or LDAP, or a mail server which needed specific certificates to access them [the specific certificates].

You could actually grab a certificate off of the network, or transfer certificates to your machine, then import them into chrome, and you could access things which require those certificates.