Secure API Components
5/10/2007
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 |