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How to export/extract a client certificate from FF mobile?

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I set up an account for StarSSL from my Android device and a client certificate was downloaded/installed to the mobile Browser. Now I tried to backup this cert to my Desktop Pc. After searching a lot about this I found out how to copy the cert9.db and key4.db files to my PC but now I don't know how to extract the certificate out of the files. Using the command:

certutil -K -d sql:.

shows Something like:

certutil: Checking token "NSS Certificate DB" in slot "NSS User Private Key and Certificate Services" < 0> rsa <some long letter/number ID> <my Email address>'s StartCom Ltd. ID

Now I know that I must use pk12util to extract the key, but the command:

pk12util -o ~/cert.p12 -n "<ID from above>" -d sql:.

Shows the following error:

pk12util: find user certs from nickname failed: PR_LOAD_LIBRARY_ERROR: Failure to load dynamic library

Thanks a lot for helping and keep on the good work with Firefox mobile (and Desktop) Greetings, tuxflo

I set up an account for StarSSL from my Android device and a client certificate was downloaded/installed to the mobile Browser. Now I tried to backup this cert to my Desktop Pc. After searching a lot about this I found out how to copy the cert9.db and key4.db files to my PC but now I don't know how to extract the certificate out of the files. Using the command: certutil -K -d sql:. shows Something like: certutil: Checking token "NSS Certificate DB" in slot "NSS User Private Key and Certificate Services" < 0> rsa <some long letter/number ID> <my Email address>'s StartCom Ltd. ID Now I know that I must use pk12util to extract the key, but the command: pk12util -o ~/cert.p12 -n "<ID from above>" -d sql:. Shows the following error: pk12util: find user certs from nickname failed: PR_LOAD_LIBRARY_ERROR: Failure to load dynamic library Thanks a lot for helping and keep on the good work with Firefox mobile (and Desktop) Greetings, tuxflo

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Solved it by my own, the solution is not to enter the ID from the certutil command, instead use the Name of the certificate: pk12util -d sql:. -o out.p12 -n "<mail_address> StartSSL Ltd. ID" after entering the password twice I had the certfile out.p12 in the current directory and could Import it to my Firefox on my Desktop machine.

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Chosen Solution

Solved it by my own, the solution is not to enter the ID from the certutil command, instead use the Name of the certificate: pk12util -d sql:. -o out.p12 -n "<mail_address> StartSSL Ltd. ID" after entering the password twice I had the certfile out.p12 in the current directory and could Import it to my Firefox on my Desktop machine.