Certificate Store

A certificate store is used to securely store digital certificates on a computer system. Certificates can be marked as non-exportable so that data theft of the certificate is made impossible. In this case, the Certificate Store also issues digital signatures .

The public part of the certificate can be exported and stored in a Certificate Trust Store of a Certificate Validation Service so that clients of the Certificate Validation Service can check the digital signatures issued.

See also

• Certificate Management Protocol

Web links

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Advanced Certificate Management. In: Developer Network. Microsoft, accessed on May 9, 2017 (English, instructions for Windows administrators). 
• Working with certificates. In: Developer Network. Microsoft, accessed on May 9, 2017 (English, Instructions for .NET Developers). 

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1. ^ Managing Certificates with Certificate Stores. In: Windows Dev Center. Microsoft, accessed May 7, 2017 .