CERT_CONTEXT

This structure contains both the encoded and decoded representations of a certificate. A certificate context returned by one of the functions defined in Wincrypt.h 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.

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

Note   This API is part of the complete Windows CE OS package as provided by Microsoft. The functionality of a particular platform is determined by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and some devices may not support this API.

See Also

CertAddCertificateContextToStore, CertAddEncodedCertificateToStore, CertCreateCertificateContext, CertDuplicateCertificateContext, CertEnumCertificatesInStore, CertFindCertificateInStore, CertFreeCertificateContext, CertGetIssuerCertificateFromStore, CertGetSubjectCertificateFromStore, CERT_INFO

 Last updated on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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