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I swear, I'm about to pull my eyeballs out over code signing certificates. .PEM, .PVK, .CER, .KEY, .CSR, .SPC, .PFX... OpenSSL, PVK conversion tools, Windows Driver Kit, my goodness. All I need is a stupid PFX file. Does anybody know what I'm talking about and could help?

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What are you trying to secure exactly, and how much security are you hoping to provide it?

I'm using an EV SSL Cert right now that encrypts at 256 bits. But that's only because the site I'm running it on literally collects just about every form of information possible if the user opts to provide it.

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Making a code signing cert, basically GoDaddy gives you files that can't directly be used. May have just got it though. They blocked the browsers from exporting certificates in the way you used to be able to. Supposedly there is a "pvk2pfx" tool in the Windows Driver Kit and Visual Studio 2010 but I can't get it to work. Just found an old PVK importer from Office 2000 and it worked ok. Been staring at this for 3 days.

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If you're plugging it into a client, I don't know how to do that.

If you are plugging it in with a dedicated IP on a server though, most clients will accept the entire .zip folder with the .crt and the pvk2pfx file in it and correctly array them in the cache. I'm using cPanel when I do this and it also generates the corresponding keys and algorithm.

Kinda like this:

https://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-apache-cpanel.htm

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