What is a good and safe way of sharing certificates?

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Published on 2011-03-01T06:33:08Z Indexed on 2011/03/01 7:26 UTC
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I have a few certificates, that are used as authentication, to ssh into my servers on the Amazon cloud. I rotate those certificates weekly, manually. My question is, I need to share the certificates with some colleagues, a few on the LAN, and a few in another part of the country. What is the best practice to share the certificate? My initial thoughts were Dropbox and email. We dont host dedicated email servers with encryption and all, and dont have a VPN.

Thanks.

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