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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by jhkaghjkga on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:05AM (#11116391)
> lose a private key that they generated for me

Found your problem: you should never have someone generate a private key for you.

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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by nickjj on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:48AM (#11117459)
Yeah I know. Since then I haven't done that. Keep in mind these series of events happened years ago.

It's one of StartSSL's flaws too. They are an enabler of doing stupid things.

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