Certificates Overview (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

This topic lists the modules and components that make up the Certificate Services feature, and the Sysgen variables that enable them.

OS Design Information

The following table shows operating system design information for Certificates.

Element	Information
Dependencies	None.
Hardware considerations	None.

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

Feature	Module	Component
Certificates (CryptoAPI 2.0)	msasn1, crypt32, certmod	None

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 Embedded CE device from a Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 with Web enrollment support installed.