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# sk89185 - Failed to initialize Encryption Key Pair of ICA gateway certificate

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk89185 |
| Date Created | 2012-12-02 |
| Last Modified | 2019-03-05 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * The CVPND process fails to start.
* When running # cvpnrestart the error message seen is "Failed to initialize Encryption Key Pair of ICA gateway certificate -CVPND aborting"

## Cause

The certificate is corrupted.

## Solution

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