You might receive a notification from your certificate authority that a certificate is nearing its expiration date. When you renew a certificate using the same private key, you extend the life of the private key and all information in the expiring certificate is updated to reflect the renewal, including the key ring connection information. The following procedures outline the steps to renew an expiring personal certificate that was either issued by an external certificate authority, issued by a local certificate authority, or was self-signed within RACF®.