Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic

Summary

In this chapter, you learned the basics of managing and working with certificates and certificate stores. You learned how to find and list the certificates in the various certificate stores on your computer. You also learned how to view the properties set on the certificates. You now know how to find the certificate that you need and to check any properties for which you want the value.

Although you learned a bit about working with certificates in this chapter and how to request certificates from a Certificate Authority in the preceding chapter, you're still not through. In the next chapter, you'll dive into the topic of maintaining Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) and Certificate Trust Lists (CTL). These two mechanisms are widely used ...