RE: Certificate entries in registries

From: RelyKY (RelyKY_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:53:03 -0700

hi.
wish the following register path may help your:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography

"fltcpt" wrote:

> I am trying to automate some certificate procedures -
> in my organization there is a sizable amount of
> private certs I need to import and mark them as
> trusted (for the purposes of testing our code)
> So I am fiddling with the registry...
>
> Can sometime tell me what is that blob
> in the certificate registry?... like
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\CA\Certificates\<any
> cert>\blob
>
> I've noticed part of it is the cert itself...
> but cannot otherwise figure out much.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>