Managing a Certificate Revocation List

For the sample application you'll build in this chapter, you'll modify the certificate listing utility that you built in the preceding chapter. This time, as it prepares to list all the properties of each certificate, it will first check the validity of the certificate. You'll use two methods to check the validity of the certificates. One will check with the Certificate Authority using the CertAdmin object, and the other will compare the certificates against a CRL downloaded from the Certificate Authority.

Creating the Project

To create the project for this application, copy the crypto class, form, and project files from the application that you built in the preceding chapter into a new project directory. ...

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