What Is Windows Certificate Store

This section describes what is Windows Certificate Store - a PKI certificate store integrated in a Windows operating system.

What Is Windows Certificate Store? A Windows certificate store is a PKI certificate store integrated in a Windows operating system.

Main features of Windows Certificate Store are:

Here is a list of trusted root CA certificates displayed by the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) tool.

Certificate List in Windows Certificate Store
Certificate List in Windows Certificate Store

For more information, see "Windows Certificate Stores and Console" at herongyang.com/PKI/Windows-Certificate-Stores-and-Console.html.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of PKI Certificate

 PKI Certificate File Formats

 OpenSSL - Cryptography Toolkit

 "openssl ca" - CA (Certificate Authority) Tool

 Java "keytool" Commands and KeyStore Files

PKI Certificate Store

 What Is PKI Certificate Store

What Is Windows Certificate Store

 What Is macOS KeyChain

 What Is Linux Truststore

 What Is Java KeyStore

 What Is PEM Certificate Bundle

 What Is PKCS12 Certificate Bundle

 PKCS12 Certificate Bundle File

 PKCS7 Certificate Chain File

 PKI Certificate Related Terminology

 References

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