Chapter 6. Working with Certificates

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Managing Certificate Stores

  • Managing Certificates and Certificate Contexts

  • Getting Information from Certificates

  • Building a Certificate Maintenance Utility

Now that you can issue certificate requests and retrieve issued certificates from the Certificate Authority, you need to know how to manage the certificates in your certificate store. You need to be able to find a particular certificate when you need it and remove old or expired certificates when you no longer need or want them.

In this chapter, you'll look at the Crypto API functionality that is used to manage the certificates you have stored on your computer. Although this is not one of the glamorous aspects of building encryption into your ...

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