CertAddCertificateContextToStore

This function adds a certificate context to the certificate store.

CertAddCertificateLinkToStore

This function adds a link in a certificate store to a certificate context in a different store.

CertAddEncodedCertificateToStore

This function creates a certificate context from an encoded certificate and adds it to the certificate store.

CertAddEnhancedKeyUsageIdentifier

This function adds a usage identifier OID to the certificate's extended key usage (EKU) property.

CertAddSerializedElementToStore

This function adds a serialized certificate element to the store.

CertAlgIdToOID

This function converts a CryptoAPI algorithm identifier ( ALG_ID) to an ASN.1 object identifier string.

CertCloseStore

This function closes a certificate store handle and reduces the reference count on the store.

CertCompareCertificate

This function compares two certificates to determine whether they are identical.

CertCompareCertificateName

This function compares two certificate BLOB (Cryptography)structures to determine whether they are identical.

CertCompareIntegerBlob

This function compares two integer BLOB (Cryptography)structures to determine whether they represent equal numeric values.

CertComparePublicKeyInfo

This function compares two encoded public keys to determine whether they are identical.

CertControlStore

This function allows an application to be notified when there is a difference between the contents of a cached store in use and the contents of that store as it is persisted to storage.

CertCreateCertificateContext

This function creates a certificate context from an encoded certificate.

CertDeleteCertificateFromStore

This function deletes the specified certificate context from the certificate store.

CertDuplicateCertificateChain

This function duplicates a pointer to a certificate chain by incrementing the chain's reference count.

CertDuplicateCertificateContext

This function duplicates a certificate context by incrementing its reference count.

CertDuplicateStore

This function duplicates a store handle by incrementing the store's reference count.

CertEnumCertificateContextProperties

This function retrieves the first or next extended property associated with a certificate context.

CertEnumCertificatesInStore

This function retrieves the first or next certificate in a certificate store.

CertEnumPhysicalStore

This function retrieves the physical stores on a computer.

CertEnumSystemStore

This function retrieves the first or next system store available.

CertEnumSystemStoreLocation

This function retrieves the first or next system store location.

CertFindAttribute

This function finds the first attribute in the CRYPT_ATTRIBUTEarray, as identified by its object identifier (OID).

CertFindCertificateInStore

This function finds the first or next certificate context in a certificate store that matches search criteria established by the dwFindTypeparameter and its associated pvFindParaparameter.

CertFindExtension

This function finds the first extension in the CERT_EXTENSIONarray, as identified by its object identifier (OID).

CertFindRDNAttr

This function finds the first relative distinguished name (RDN) attribute identified by its object identifier (OID) in an RDN list.

CertFreeCertificateChain

This function frees a certificate chain by reducing its reference count.

CertFreeCertificateContext

This function frees a certificate context by decrementing its reference count.

CertGetCertificateChain

This function builds a certificate chain context starting from an end certificate and going back, if possible, to a trusted root certificate.

CertGetCertificateContextProperty

This function retrieves the information contained in an extended property of a certificate context.

CertGetEnhancedKeyUsage

This function returns information from the extended key usage (EKU) extension or the EKU property of a certificate.

CertGetIntendedKeyUsage

This function acquires the intended key usage bytes from a certificate.

CertGetIssuerCertificateFromStore

This function retrieves the certificate context from the certificate store for the first or next issuer of the specified subject certificate.

CertGetNameString

This function obtains the subject or issuer name from a certificate CERT_CONTEXTstructure and converts it to a NULL-terminated character string.

CertGetPublicKeyLength

This function acquires the bit length of public/private keys from a public key BLOB (Cryptography).

CertGetStoreProperty

This function retrieves a store property.

CertGetSubjectCertificateFromStore

This function returns from a certificate store a subject certificate context uniquely identified by its issuer and serial number.

CertGetValidUsages

This function returns an array of usages consisting of the intersection of the valid usages for all certificates in an array of certificates.

CertIsRDNAttrsInCertificateName

This function compares the attributes in the certificate name with the specified CERT_RDNstructure to determine whether all attributes are included there.

CertNameToStr

This function converts the name in a BLOB (Cryptography)structure to a NULL-terminated character string.

CertOIDToAlgId

This function converts the ASN.1 object identifier (OID) string to the CryptoAPI algorithm identifier ( ALG_ID).

CertOpenStore

This function opens a certificate store using a specified store provider type.

CertOpenSystemStore

This function is a simplified function used to open the most common system certificate store.

CertRDNValueToStr

This function converts a name in a BLOB (Cryptography)structure to a NULL-terminated character string.

CertRemoveEnhancedKeyUsageIdentifier

This function removes a usage identifier OID from the certificate's extended key usage (EKU) property.

CertSaveStore

This function saves the certificate store to a file or to a memory BLOB (Cryptography).

CertSerializeCertificateStoreElement

This function serializes a certificate context's encoded certificate and its encoded properties.

CertSetCertificateContextProperty

This function sets an extended property for a specified certificate context.

CertSetEnhancedKeyUsage

This function sets the extended key usage (EKU) property for the certificate.

CertSetStoreProperty

This function sets a store property.

CertStrToName

This function converts a NULL-terminated X500 string to an encoded certificate name.

CertVerifySubjectCertificateContext

This function performs the enabled verification checks on a certificate by checking the validity of the certificate's issuer.

CertVerifyTimeValidity

This function verifies the time validity of a certificate.

CertVerifyValidityNesting

This function verifies that a subject certificate's time validity nests correctly within its issuer's time validity.

CryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey

This function acquires a HCRYPTPROVcryptographic service provider (CSP) handle including access to its related key container and the dwKeySpecparameter for a user's specified certificate context.

CryptCreateKeyIdentifierFromCSP

This function creates a key identifier from a cryptographic service provider (CSP) public key BLOB.

CryptDecodeObjectEx

This function decodes a structure of the type indicated by the lpszStructTypeparameter.

CryptEncodeObjectEx

This function encodes a structure of the type indicated by the value of the lpszStructTypeparameter.

CryptEnumKeyIdentifierProperties

This function enumerates key identifiers and their properties.

CryptEnumOIDInfo

This function enumerates predefined and registered object identifier CRYPT_OID_INFOstructures.

CryptExportPublicKeyInfoEx

This function exports the public key information associated with the provider's corresponding private key.

CryptFindCertificateKeyProvInfo

This function enumerates the cryptographic providers and their containers to find the private key corresponding to the certificate's public key.

CryptFindOIDInfo

This function retrieves the first predefined or registered CRYPT_OID_INFOstructure matching a specified key type and key.

CryptFreeOIDFunctionAddress

This function frees a handle returned by the CryptGetOIDFunctionAddressor CryptGetDefaultOIDFunctionAddressfunction by decrementing the reference count on the function handle.

CryptGetDefaultOIDFunctionAddress

This function loads the DLL containing a default function address.

CryptGetKeyIdentifierProperty

This function acquires a specific property from a specified key identifier.

CryptGetOIDFunctionAddress

This function searches the list of installed functions for an encoding type and OID match.

CryptHashCertificate

This function hashes the entire encoded content of a certificate including its signature.

CryptHashPublicKeyInfo

This function encodes the public key information in a CERT_PUBLIC_KEY_INFOstructure and computes the hash of the encoded bytes.

CryptHashToBeSigned

This function computes the hash of the encoded content from a signed and encoded certificate.

CryptImportPublicKeyInfoEx

This function imports public key information into the cryptographic service provider (CSP) and returns a handle of the public key.

CryptInitOIDFunctionSet

This function initializes and returns the handle of the OID function set identified by a supplied function set name.

CryptInstallDefaultContext

This function installs a previously acquired HCRYPTPROVcontext to be used as a default context.

CryptInstallOIDFunctionAddress

This function installs a set of callable OID function addresses.

CryptSetKeyIdentifierProperty

This function sets the property of a specified key identifier.

CryptSignAndEncodeCertificate

This function encodes and signs a certificate or certificate request.

CryptSignCertificate

This function signs the to-be-signed information in the encoded signed content.

CryptUninstallDefaultContext

This function removes a default context previously installed by the CryptInstallDefaultContextfunction

PFXExportCertStoreEx

This function exports the certificates and, if available, their associated private keys from the referenced certificate store in Personal Information Exchange (PFX) format.

PFX format is also known as Public-Key Cryptography Standards #12 (PKCS #12) format.

PFXImportCertStore

This function imports a PFX BLOB and returns the handle of a store containing certificates and any associated private keys.

PFXIsPFXBlob

This function attempts to decode the outer layer of a BLOB as a PFX packet.

PFXVerifyPassword

This function attempts to decode the outer layer of a BLOB as a PFX packet and to decrypt it with the given password. No data from the BLOB is imported.