CERT_CONTEXT

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This structure contains both the encoded and decoded representations of a certificate. A certificate context returned by one of the functions defined in the Wincrypt.h file must be freed by calling the CertFreeCertificateContext function. The CertDuplicateCertificateContext function can be called to make a duplicate copy, which also must be freed by calling the CertFreeCertificateContext function.

Syntax

typedef struct _CERT_CONTEXT {
  DWORD dwCertEncodingType;
  BYTE* pbCertEncoded;
  DWORD cbCertEncoded;
  PCERT_INFO pCertInfo;
  HCERTSTORE hCertStore;
} CERT_CONTEXT, *PCERT_CONTEXT;
typedef const CERT_CONTEXT *PCCERT_CONTEXT;

Members

• dwCertEncodingType
  Currently, only X509_ASN_ENCODING is used; however, additional encoding types may be added in the future.

• pbCertEncoded
  Pointer to the encoded certificate.

• cbCertEncoded
  Size, in bytes, of the encoded certificate.

• pCertInfo
  Pointer to a structure of certificate information.

• hCertStore
  Handle to the certificate store that contains the certificate context.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

CertAddCertificateContextToStore
CertAddEncodedCertificateToStore
CertCreateCertificateContext
CertDuplicateCertificateContext
CertEnumCertificatesInStore
CertFindCertificateInStore
CertFreeCertificateContext
CertGetIssuerCertificateFromStore
CertGetSubjectCertificateFromStore
CERT_INFO