[LogPlus] FW: Have you saved your LoTW certificate?]

[Allen Sklar]

Hello All
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Allen Sklar, W7AS
Tempe AZ USA


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: FW: Have you saved your LoTW certificate?
> From: "John DeRuiter" <wm7a@COX.NET>
> Date: Wed, February 18, 2004 5:22 pm
> To: CADXA@LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> 
> Read below if you are using LoTW.  I learned this the hard way.
> 
> John DeRuiter, WM7A
> http://members.cox.net/wm7a/
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LoTW Administrator [mailto:lotw-admin@arrl.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 1:38 PM
> Subject: Have you saved your LoTW certificate?
> 
> 
> We've been contacted by a number of Logbook of the World users who
> have lost their LoTW digital certifcate through disk crashes or
> other mishaps. If this happens to you, YOUR LOTW CERTIFCATE IS GONE
> and you have to apply for a new one, from the beginning.
> 
> Unless, that is, you have SAVED YOUR CERTIFICATE. Note that we are
> NOT referring to a .tq5 or .tq6 file. Rather, we are referring to
> the .p12 file that is produced when you use the TQSLCert
> "Certificate/Save" menu selection. If you don't have a .p12 file,
> you haven't saved your certificate!
> 
> To save a certificate in TQSLCert:
> 
> 1) Click on the certificate in the certificate list to select it.
> 
> 2) In the "Certificate" menu, choose "Save"
> 
> 3) In the dialog that appears, pick a location on your system to
> save the .p12 file.
> 
> 4) Optionally (but recommended), pick a password to use to protect
> the file. This password will have to be supplied if and when you
> want to restore the certificate later. Note that the password IS
> case sensitive.
> 
> 5) If you originally protected your certificate with a password,
> you'll have to supply that password, too, when asked to do so.
> (More information about TQSLCert's use of passwords is available at
> https://www.arrl.org/lotw/faq#whypasswords.)
> 
> 6) After saving the .p12 file, TQSLCert displays a notice telling
> you exactly where on your system it saved the file. Using that
> information, copy the file to an off-line medium (floppy, CD-R,
> etc.)
> 
> If you don't have the ability to copy the file to another medium
> but are connected to a network, perhaps you can copy the file to
> another computer or file server on the network. The main thing is
> to have a copy of the .p12 file available to you in case your hard
> drive crashes.
> 
> 7) Store the off-line medium somewhere where you will be able to
> find it later. You may want to write down the password you used to
> protect the .p12 file and save that somewhere, too.
> 
> That's it. If you have more than one certificate, you must perform
> the save procedure separately for each certificate.
> 
> If/when you ever need to load the .p12 file into TQSLCert, on the
> same computer or on a different one, just insert the medium and use
> TQSLCert's "File/Load Certificate File" menu command.
> 
> 73,
> The Logbook Team
> 
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