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Secure API Components

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Adding secure API components to your configuration allows your applications to call security methods, such as those for cryptography and the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI).

The following tables show secure API features and the Windows XP Embedded components that must added to support them.

Crypto API

Crypto API methods are used for encoding and decoding from ASN.1, encrypting and decrypting data, and authentication using digital certificates.

Required components Key binary
Primitive: Crypt32 Crypt32.dll
Cryptographic Network Services Cryptnet.dll

SSPI (Security Support Provider Interface)

SSPI methods are used for credential management, context management, message support, and package management.

Required components Key binary
Primitive: Secur32 Secur32.dll
Primitive: Ksecdd Ksecdd.dll
Local Security Authority Subsystem (LSASS) Lsarsrv.dll

See Also

Add Security Features to a Run-Time Image

Last updated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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