** IMPORTANT NOTE : You can only export your certificate *AFTER* Comodo (or whomever you purchased it from)  issues it.

So you’ve purchased a code signing certificate from our store? Great! If you used FireFox to place the order then you’ll now need to export your certificate from the certificate store into a PFX file that you can use with the utilities that perform the code signing. This blog post will walk you through doing that.

If you ordered using Internet Explorer, click here to go to the post about exporting with IE.

Though these screen shots are from Windows XP the process is the same on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

To export a stored code signing certificate from FireFox to a PFX file follow these steps :

Open FireFox, click the Tools menu, then Options, then the Advanced Button (far right, top) :

Step 1

Click the View Certificates button :

Step 2

Select your certificate and click the Backup Button :

Step 3

FireFox requires a password for the PFX file.

Type in any password you like but REMEMBER WHAT YOU ENTER!

Click OK and that’s it! FireFox will ask you where you want to save the PFX file – save it anywhere. The file is portable and can now be copied to any computer.

Additional Note : FireFox might save the file with a .p12 extension – that’s OK! Just rename the file to .pfx and you can use it with any of the code signing tools.

** IMPORTANT NOTE : You can only export your certificate *AFTER* Comodo (or whomever you purchased it from)  issues it.

So you’ve purchased a code signing certificate from our store? Great! If you used a new(er) version of Internet Explorer then you’ll now need to export your certificate from the certificate store into a PFX file that you can use with the utilities that perform the code signing. This blog post will walk you through doing that.

Though these screen shots are from Windows XP the process is the same on Windows Vista.

To export a stored code signing certificate to a PFX file follow these steps :

Open Control Panel, click Internet Options.

Step 1

Click the Content tab. Click the Certificates button.

Step 2

Select the Personal tab, then click the certificate you would like to export.

Comodo certificates will be “Issued By” UTN-USERFirst-Object like in the above screen shot.

Step 3

Click the Next button

Step 4

Click the option “Yes, export the private key”. Click the Next button.

Step 5

Select the option Personal Information Exchange. Check the first two boxes and optionally the third box. Click the Next button.

** Windows Vista Users : You may not have the “Enable Strong Encryption” option – that is OK! Check the “Export all extended properties” option.

Step 6

Optionally password protect the private key. Click the Next button.

While password protecting the key does provide a great deal of security (only those with the password can code sign), you MUST remember the password – it cannot be recovered.

The only thing left to do after step 6 is to choose where to save the PFX file and click Finish!