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  • Title card reading "Owning the Edge, Part 6: When the CA Private Key Is Gone" with the subtitle "Auditing an inherited PKI", over a dark blue background with a network of connected nodes
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    Owning the Edge - When the CA Private Key Is Gone

    Adding one phone to my OpenVPN fallback revealed that the private key of the old certificate authority no longer existed anywhere. How I searched for it, and the 30-second check that proves whether a certificate and a key belong together.

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