certificate-store

I am creating an SSL connection using OpenSSL API. As we know in a SSL handshake, series of Certificate Authentication occurs for Server or Client. Now for client certificate authentication, the client's certificate and associated private key are stored in Windows Certificate Store . This certificate with private key is imported into the store after combining them into a pfx format and then that pfx file is imported to the windows Cert store. Now while importing this pfx file using mmc snap-in it asks whether we want to make the private key exportable or not. Now OpenSSL comes into picture for

Because I'm awesome I'm trying to run the latest WIF demo app using VS2k10 B2 on my 7 boxen... 64bit of course (my neckbeard is strong) I'm having a problem getting it running. Part of the whole demo thing requires I install some certificates on the local machine. Problem is that they ask me to install some of the website certs into a certificate store called LocalMachine/My . Well, there doesn't appear to be any /My anymore. There appears a suspiciously similar store called Personal , but the app doesn't work if I install the certs there and change the configurations to look in LocalMachine

I'm looking to write something that can enumerate and use (to sign) certificates in CurrentUser/My and LocalMachine/My, but I haven't been able to find anything for the Windows cert store, only Java's own secret store. This link looks promising, but I can only use what ships with Java. I found this question asked on SO before, but it's from five years ago, which is a long time in computer years. Thanks! Start Java with -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=WINDOWS-ROOT . See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/security-137537.html for more information. Crypt32 The cross-platform nature

Today, a colleague hit yet another bug related to these! I've found these flags really frustrating in past myself, because if you get them slightly wrong while instantiating X509Certificate2 objects, or exporting them, or saving them in an X509Store you can land in situations with all sorts of weird bugs such as: unexpectedly can't tell NETSH.exe or ASP.net to use a certain SSL certificate [by its thumbprint], even though you have that cert in your machine store unexpectedly you can export the cert data but it gets exported without the private key using .Export() unexpectedly your unit tests

I'm writing a Windows service that needs several certificates in the certificate store in order to connect to a third party web service. On my installer I call a small application (C#) that creates a user to run the service as. It works fine. I now need to install about 10 certificates (don't ask!) into the users certificate store, but can't find any succinct programmatic way to do so. Any hints? Or am I going to have to use COM interop... DavidWhitney Turns out you first need to impersonate the user. Using the very nice library described in A small C# Class for impersonating a User , you can

This is very similar to other questions but the ones I've looked at either don't have an answer or don't quite ask the same question. I have a self-signed CA certificate, and two other certificates that are signed with that CA certificate. I'm fairly sure the certificates are correct, because 'openssl verify' works: $ openssl verify -CAfile ca.pem server.pem server.pem: OK (The above is from memory, I don't have them in front of me, so it may be slightly off). Now I want to verify the certificates programatically. I have a utility function with pseudocode below: int verify_cert(X509 *cert,

For a secure application I need to select a certificate in a dialog. How can I access certificate store or a part of it (e.g. storeLocation="Local Machine" and storeName="My" ) using C# and get a collection of all certificates from there? Thanks in advance for your help. acejologz X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine); store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly); foreach (X509Certificate2 certificate in store.Certificates){ //TODO's } Try this: //using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates; public static X509Certificate2 selectCert(StoreName store, StoreLocation

I'm trying to read the private key of a certificate which has been shared with me by a third-party service provider, so I can use it to encrypt some XML before sending it to them over the wire. I'm doing so programmatically in C#, but I think this is a permissions or misconfiguration issue, so I'll focus on the facts which seem to be most relevant: I don't think this issue is code-related; my code works on other computers, and the issue affects sample code from Microsoft. The certificate was provided as a PFX file and is just for test purposes, so it also includes a dummy certification