Certificates OS Design Development

11/18/2009

Windows Embedded CE public key-based services and applications require a digital certificate. This certificate, and its associated private key, establishes a trusted identity for an entity using the public key-based services and applications. Certificate enrollment is the process of acquiring a digital certificate from a certificate authority. Certificate enrollment involves a client and a certificate authority. The client is responsible for initiating the enrollment request and with providing all the necessary information to the certificate authority. The certificate authority is responsible for validating the request and issuing a certificate.

In This Section

• Certificates Overview
  Provides information that is necessary to configure an OS design that uses the Certificates functionality.

• Modifying the ASP Page
  Describes how to modify the default location of Certfnsh.asp. This is the page that receives the certificate request.

• Enrollment Options
  Describes other enrollment options for Enroll.exe. These include a control panel utility, smart card, and custom enrollment clients.

• Smart Card Enrollment
  Provides high-level information about Smart card certificate enrollment using Windows Embedded CE.

Related Sections

• Certificates Application Development
  Provides information about encoding and decoding a certificate, and how to manage certificates with certificate stores, in addition to listing all the supported certificates APIs.

• Certificates Registry Settings
  Describes the registry settings that are necessary to configure this functionality in your device.

• Certificates Security
  Provides security information about certificates in Windows Embedded CE and best practices for implementation.