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Certificates Overview (Windows CE 5.0)

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This topic shows all the components and modules, and the sysgen variables that are necessary to enable the Certificates functionality.

OS Design Information

The following table shows operating system design information for Certificates.

Element Information
Dependencies None.
Hardware considerations None.

Modules and Components

The following table shows the components and modules that implement Certificates Services.

Item Module Component
Certificates (CryptoAPI 2.0) msasn1, crypt32 None

Certificates Services Implementation Considerations

The following table shows the Sysgen variables that enable Certificates Services.

Sysgen variable Description
SYSGEN_CERTS Certificates (CryptoAPI 2.0) provides superset of CryptoAPI 1.0 that manages X.509 digital certificates.
SYSGEN_CRYPTMSG Includes support for Cryptography message APIs that work directly with PKCS #7 messages by encoding and decoding the PKCS #7 data, and also decrypt and verify the signatures of received messages.
SYSGEN_CERTS_PFX Includes the Personal Information Exchange (PFX) functionality which will enable exporting and importing certificates with their associated private keys. The certificates and encrypted private keys are represented in the PKCS#12 format.
SYSGEN_ENROLL Includes the Microsoft Certificate Enrollment Tool Sample in the run-time image This code sample illustrates the client role for certificate enrollment. The sample is used to obtain a certificate for a Windows CE device from a Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 with Web enrollment support installed. For more information, see topic Using the Enrollment Client Sample.

See Also

Certificates | Certificates OS Design Development | Certificates Registry Settings

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