CryptoAPI and ldap

From: Al Norman (al.norman_at_xwave.com)
Date: 01/30/04

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    I am new to Microsoft's CryptoAPI, so am stuck on something that may be obvious, but not to me. The situation is that I need to validate a user's credentials against a 3rd party LDAP directory (Entrust). I have the correct information to access the directory, since I am able to use ldp.exe to browse it. My question is (as you can tell I didn't get very far): how do you use CertOpenStore with a 3rd party LDAP provider? In this context, I am not even sure what the 'store' represents. I have been unable to find any examples (other than one for AD) which I don't think applies in this case. Or, do I open an LDAP store with AD and then, somehow, get it to do referrals to the 3rd party LDAP directory? If so, do I need to do anything with my AD server to set that up?

    I am using Visual Studio .Net 2003, but in C++ mode, since I am integrating this into an older project.

    al

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