dotnet security:

No. An X509 certificate is a piece of data that associates an identity with
a public key (which has a matching private key). The public key, along with
the identity data, is included in the certificate. The private key is
always stored separately.

You can have public and private keys without X509 certificates.

Joe K.

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Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
http://www.directoryprogramming.net
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