Retrieving an RSA key from a running instance of Apache?
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I created an RSA keypair for an SSL certificate and stored the private key in /etc/ssl/private/server.key
. Unfortunately this was the only copy of the private key that I had.
Then I accidentally overwrote the file on disk (yes, I know).
Apache is still running and still serving SSL requests, leading me to believe that there may be hope in recovering the private key. (Perhaps there is a symbolic link somewhere in /proc
or something?)
This server is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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