Reusing Certificate Signing Request for Apple Push Service

Question

The creation of a CSR will prompt Keychain Access to simultaneously generate a public and private key pair. Your private key is stored on your Mac in th....

So every iOS app can have two environments set up for push notifications, development and production.

What is the harm in reusing the same CSR (and thus the same private key?) for both dev and prod environments? Is this even possible?

In a similar effect what would be the harm of using the same CSR across the different apps.

Basically I want to manage a single private key when I install the required elements on the server that will handle push notifications on my end.

Thanks

Answer 1

I use the same private/public key for all my certificates. The only time I ever end up having different private/public keys is when a client wants me to manage their whole Apple account and certificate generation.