missing private key in the distribution certificate on keychain

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I have the following problem which I could not find a solution for anywhere  Basically  we have a company developer account  not enterprise  and so in order to submit our app  I requested from our team lead to send me the distribution certificate and create and send me a distribution provisioning profile    With the developer profile  everything works good  but when I installed the cert and the provisioning profile  I did not see the distribution profile on Xcode  and nor do I have a private key under the dist cert in the keychain   Does anyone know how to solve this  I read in diff places that I will need to revoke the certificate and create a new one  but I can t really do that since we have a bunch of apps in the company and I can t revoke it for everyone

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Check whether you are using Login or not to add the certificates, if you are checking in System at top left hand side then we wont be able to see it.

So drag and drop the .cer into login then check you are able to get the private key or not.

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I m the creator of the key  but the key was attached to an expired Certificate  To solve it I went to - gt  Xcode Preferences Accounts  quot Account you use to archive quot  Manage Certificates   Then click on the dropdown menu with the  quot   quot  sign on the bottom left corner  and choose the type of certificate you need updated  mine was Apple Distribution   This updated my new certificate with its key attached

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I lost hours and hours to resolve this issue  but it s fixed by just restarting MAC

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At the Menu   Visual Studio  mac    Preferences   Publishing   Apple Developer Accounts    Select your apple id    View Details   Create Certificate  To delete unused invalid certificates  go to website  https   developer apple com account resources certificates list  delete any unwanted certificate there  Next is to create App ID  identifiers   go to website  https   developer apple com account resources identifiers list  Next  go to website to create provisioning profiles  https   developer apple com account resources profiles add  use the certificate to bind with your app id   Next is to download the profiles  At your mac   At the Menu   Visual Studio  mac    Preferences   Publishing   Apple Developer Accounts    Select your apple id    View Details   Download All Profiles

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In my case  I ve lost all private keys in my keychain  new ones were imported correctly  but doesn t show the private key as well  The only thing that helped was generating new CertificateSigningRequest

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As long as you still have access to the mac which was used to generate the original distribution certificate it s very simple   Just use that mac s Keychain Access application to export both the certificate and the private key  Select both using shift or command and right click to export to a  p12 file   Attached a screenshot to make it very clear   On your mac  import that  p12 file and you are good to go  just make sure you have a valid provisioning profile

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Just to shed some light on this    After I deleted my p12 certificate from Keychain  I re-downloaded my own certificate from Apple developer portal    I was only able to download the certificate  But to sign you need the private key as well  So you either    export both private key and certificate from Keychain to get it   Upload a Certificate Signing Request and generate new certificates   That certificate by itself has no value for signing purposes  My guess is that the private key is created by keychain the moment you  request a certificate from a certificate authority  but isn t shown to you until you add its tying certificate

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Ahh this is a common issue  The solution is simple   Who ever created the developer credentials originally needs to go to the keychain on their computer and right click on the key s  for private and public and export the key to a file  Then you just download that file on your computer and open it  and it will be added to your keychain   You need to have both the private key   pem file  and the certificate for your provisioning profiles

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I got into this situation   quot Missing private key  quot   after Xcode failed to create new distribution certificate - an unknown error occurred  Then  I struggled to obtain the private key or to generate new certificate  From the certificate manager in Xcode I got strange errors like  quot The passphrase you entered is wrong quot   But it did not even ask me for any passphrase  What helped me was   Revoke all not-working distribution certificates at developer apple com Restart my Mac  After that  Xcode was able to create new distribution certificate and no private key was missing  Lesson learned  Restart your Mac as much as your Windows

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I could resolve this problem by updating macOS and XCode

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To add on to others  answers  if you don t have access to that private key anymore it s fairly simple to get back up and running         revoke your active certificate in the provisioning portal    create new developer certificate  keychain access     request for csr   etc     download and install a new certificate   create a new provisioning profile for existing app id  on provisioning portal    download and install new provisioning profile and in the build  settings set the appropriate code signing identities

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After you changed a Mac which are not the origin one who created the disitribution certificate  you will missing the private key Just delete the origin certificate and recreate a new one  that works for me

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For person who are afraid on re-creating AppStore distribution certificate Apple documentation says      Important  Re-creating your development or distribution certificates   doesn   t affect apps that you   ve submitted to the App Store nor does it   affect your ability to update them    But it affects apps for Apple Developer Enterprise ecosystem

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I accessed that certificate on apple s developer website and after downloaded it I opened it  Likewise  at open I got a little window asking if I wanted to add the certificate to keychain  Just tapped  add  and the  missing private key  error was gone

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When I try to upload iOS build to test flight then error was appear    Missing privacy key      Just 2 step for fix this error    Remove old certificate from developer apple com Create new certificate from Xcode or developer apple com   My problem has been solved  I am using Xcode 9 4 1    Please check  Xcode created new certificate

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Delete the existing one from KeyChain  get and add the  p12 file to your mac from where the certificate was created    To get  p12 from source Mac  go to KeyChain  expand the certificate  select both and export 2 items  This will save  p12 file in your location

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