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AndreaGiacomin
Dec 29, 2022Copper Contributor
Same RSA certificate in local store and smart card
Hi, On Windows 10 I noticed this strange behavior with certificate management: an RSA certificate, and the relative private key, is locally stored in the machine. If the private key is copied and im...
ArthurHarvey
Jan 16, 2026Copper Contributor
This is the expected behavior of the Windows certificate store. When it detects that the same private key exists on a smart card, it prioritizes and locks that certificate for use by the smart card.