Cryptography Structures (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

The following table shows the Cryptography structures with a description of the purpose of each.

Note

Some of the structure names below link to the appropriate Windows based desktop structure description on MSDN.

Structure	Description
AUTHENTICODE_EXTRA_CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_PARA	Holds policy information used in the verification of certificate chains for files.
AUTHENTICODE_EXTRA_CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_STATUS	Holds additional Authenticode policy information for chain verification of files.
AUTHENTICODE_TS_EXTRA_CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_PARA	Contains time stamp policy information that can be used in certificate chain verification of files.
BLOB (Cryptography)	Used for an arbitrary array of bytes.
CERT_ACCESS_DESCRIPTION	Contains one instance of information about how to access certification authority information and services for the issuer of the certificate in which the CERT_AUTHORITY_INFO_ACCESS extension appears.
CERT_ALT_NAME_ENTRY	Contains an alternative name in one of a variety of name forms.
CERT_ALT_NAME_INFO	Used in encoding and decoding extensions for subject or issuer certificates.
CERT_AUTHORITY_INFO_ACCESS	Appears as a certificate extension and indicates how to access certification authority information and services for the issuer of that certificate.
CERT_AUTHORITY_KEY_ID_INFO	Identifies the key used to sign a certificate.
CERT_AUTHORITY_KEY_ID2_INFO	Identifies the key used to sign a certificate.
CERT_BASIC_CONSTRAINTS_INFO	Contains information that indicates whether the certified subject can act as a certification authority, an end entity, or both.
CERT_BASIC_CONSTRAINTS2_INFO	Contains information that indicates whether the certified subject can act as a certification authority or as an end entity.
CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT	Contains an array of simple certificate chains and a trust status structure that indicates summary validity data on all of the connected simple chains.
CERT_CHAIN_ELEMENT	A single element in a simple certificate chain.
CERT_CHAIN_ENGINE_CONFIG	Sets parameters for building a nondefault certificate chain engine.
CERT_CHAIN_PARA	Establishes the searching and matching criteria that are used to build a certificate chain.
CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_PARA	Contains information used in the CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy function to establish policy criteria for the verification of certificate chains.
CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_STATUS	Holds certificate chain status information returned by the CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy function when the certificate chains are validated.
CERT_CONTEXT	Contains both the encoded and decoded representations of a certificate.
CERT_EXTENSION	Contains the extension information for a certificate.
CERT_ID	Provides a flexible way to uniquely identify a certificate.
CERT_INFO	Contains the certificate information.
CERT_ISSUER_SERIAL_NUMBER	Acts as a unique identifier of a certificate that contains the issuer and issuer serial number for a certificate.
CERT_KEY_ATTRIBUTES_INFO	Contains optional additional information about the public key being certified.
CERT_KEY_CONTEXT	Contains data for the pvData member of a Value member of the CERT_EXTENSION structure associated with a CERT_KEY_CONTEXT_PROP_ID property.
CERT_KEY_USAGE_RESTRICTION_INFO	Contains restrictions imposed on the usage of a certificate public key.
CERT_KEYGEN_REQUEST_INFO	Contains information stored in a key generation request.
CERT_NAME_INFO	Contains subject or issuer names.
CERT_POLICIES_INFO	Contains an array of the CERT_POLICY_INFO structure.
CERT_POLICY_ID	Contains a list of certificate policies that the certificate expressly supports, together with optional qualifier information that pertains to these policies.
CERT_POLICY_INFO	Contains an object identifier that specifies a policy and an optional array of policy qualifiers.
CERT_POLICY_QUALIFIER_INFO	Contains an object identifier that specifies the qualifier and qualifier-specific supplemental information.
CERT_PRIVATE_KEY_VALIDITY	Indicates a valid time span for the private key that corresponds to a certificate public key.
CERT_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO	Contains a public key and its algorithm.
CERT_RDN	Contains a relative distinguished name (RDN) that consists of an array of CERT_RDN_ATTR structures.
CERT_RDN_ATTR	Contains a single attribute of an RDN.
CERT_REQUEST_INFO	Contains information for a certificate request.
CERT_SIGNED_CONTENT_INFO	Contains encoded content to be signed and a BLOB (Cryptography) structure to hold the signature.
CERT_SIMPLE_CHAIN	Contains an array of chain elements and a summary trust status for the chain that the array represents.
CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_INFO	Contains information used by functions that work with system stores.
CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_RELOCATE_PARA	Contains data to be passed to the CertOpenStore function when that function's dwFlags parameter is set to CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_RELOCATE_FLAG.
CERT_TRUST_LIST_INFO	Indicates a valid use of a certificate trust list (CTL).
CERT_TRUST_STATUS	Contains trust information about a certificate in a certificate chain, summary trust information about a simple chain of certificates, or summary information about an array of simple chains.
CERT_USAGE_MATCH	Provides parameters for finding issuer certificates used to build a certificate chain.
CMSG_CMS_RECIPIENT_INFO	Used with the CryptMsgGetParam function to get information about a key transport, key agreement, or mail list envelope message recipient.
CMSG_CMS_SIGNER_INFO	Contains the content of the defined SignerInfo in signed, or in signed and enveloped messages.
CMSG_CTRL_ADD_SIGNER_UNAUTH_ATTR_PARA	Used to add an unauthenticated attribute to a signer of a signed message.
CMSG_CTRL_DECRYPT_PARA	Contains information used to decrypt an enveloped message for a key transport recipient.
CMSG_CTRL_DEL_SIGNER_UNAUTH_ATTR_PARA	Used to delete an unauthenticated attribute of a signer of a signed message.
CMSG_CTRL_KEY_AGREE_DECRYPT_PARA	Contains information about a key agreement recipient.
CMSG_CTRL_VERIFY_SIGNATURE_EX_PARA	Contains information that is used to verify a message signature. It contains the signer index and signer public key.
CMSG_ENVELOPED_ENCODE_INFO	Contains information that is needed to encode an enveloped message.
CMSG_HASHED_ENCODE_INFO	Used with hashed messages.
CMSG_KEY_TRANS_RECIPIENT_INFO	Contains information that is used in key transport algorithms.
CMSG_MAIL_LIST_RECIPIENT_INFO	Contains information that is used for previously distributed symmetric key-encryption keys (KEK).
CMSG_SIGNED_ENCODE_INFO	Contains information to be passed to CryptMsgOpenToEncode if dwMsgType is CMSG_SIGNED.
CMSG_SIGNER_ENCODE_INFO	Contains signer information.
CMSG_SIGNER_INFO	Contains the content of the PKCS #7 defined SignerInfo in signed messages.
CMSG_STREAM_INFO	Used to enable processing stream data rather than single block processing.
CRYPT_ALGORITHM_IDENTIFIER	Specifies an algorithm.
CRYPT_ATTRIBUTE	Specifies an attribute that has one or more values.
CRYPT_ATTRIBUTES	Contains an array of attributes.
CRYPT_BIT_BLOB	Contains an array of bytes.
CRYPT_DECRYPT_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains information for decrypting messages.
CRYPT_ENCODE_PARA	Provides access to memory allocation and memory that frees callback functions.
CRYPT_ENCRYPT_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains information used to encrypt messages.
CRYPT_HASH_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains data for hashing messages.
CRYPT_KEY_PROV_INFO	Contains fields that are passed as arguments to the CryptAcquireContext function to acquire a handle to a particular key container within a particular cryptographic service provider (CSP) or to create or destroy a key container.
CRYPT_KEY_PROV_PARAM	Contains data to be passed as the arguments to the CryptSetProvParam function.
CRYPT_KEY_SIGN_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains information about the CSP and algorithms used to sign a message.
CRYPT_KEY_VERIFY_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains information needed to verify signed messages without a certificate for the signer.
CRYPT_INTEGER_BLOB	Contains an arbitrary array of bytes. The structure definition includes aliases appropriate to the various functions that use it.
CRYPT_OID_FUNC_ENTRY	Contains an object identifier (OID) and a pointer to its related function.
CRYPT_OID_INFO	Contains information about an OID.
CRYPT_SIGN_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains information for signing messages using a specified signing certificate context.
CRYPT_VERIFY_MESSAGE_PARA	Contains information needed to verify signed messages.
CRYPTOAPI_BLOB	Used for an arbitrary array of bytes. It provides flexibility for objects that can contain various data types.
CTL_USAGE	Contains an array of OIDs for CTL extensions.
HMAC_INFO	Specifies the hash algorithm and the inner and outer strings to use to calculate the Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) hash.
PROV_ENUMALGS	Holds information about the algorithms supported by a CSP.
PROV_ENUMALGS_EX	Holds information about the algorithms supported by a CSP.
PUBLICKEYSTRUC	Also known as the BLOBHEADER structure, indicates a key BLOB (Cryptography) type and the algorithm that the key uses.
RSAPUBKEY	Contains information specific to the particular public key contained in the key BLOB.
SSL_EXTRA_CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_PARA	Also identified by the name HTTPSPolicyCallbackData, holds policy information used in the verification of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) client/server certificate chains.
VTableProvStruc	Contains pointers to callback functions that can be used by CSP functions.

See Also

Reference

Cryptography Reference