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Certificates Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables (Compact 2013)

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3/28/2014

In Windows Embedded Compact, services and applications that use public keys for cryptography require a digital certificate. This certificate and its associated private key establish a trusted identity for an entity that uses the services and applications.

For more information, see Certificates Reference.

For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Create Your First OS.

Hardware and Software Requirements

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Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables

The following table describes the catalog items and associated SYSGEN variables you can set to add certificate services to your OS.

Catalog item

SYSGEN variable

Description

Dependencies

Certificates (CryptoAPI 2.0)

SYSGEN_CERTS

Provides a superset of CryptoAPI 1.0 that manages X.509 digital certificates

Requires SYSGEN_CRYPTO and SYSGEN_CNG_KEYS. For more information, see Cryptography Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.

See Also

Other Resources

Certificates
Cryptography