SV: SV: [Mono-list] Verifying end certificate againstrootcertificates in store

Hellan.Kim KHE KHE at kmd.dk
Wed Oct 12 03:33:05 EDT 2005


Hi Sebastien,

Sorry, I misunderstood you.
In sourcefiles like certmgr.cs you operate on "Personal" and "TrustedRoot" stores using the X509Stores/X509Store class.
What kind of "store" is that then?

All I need is somewhere to put 3-4 CA certificates and use these for issuer verification of my end certificates. It's not a must that these are located in the Windows certificate store. If Mono uses some other kind of store, I can use that too.

Thanks,
Kim


-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Sebastien Pouliot [mailto:sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com] 
Sendt: 11. oktober 2005 16:44
Til: Hellan.Kim KHE
Cc: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
Emne: Re: SV: [Mono-list] Verifying end certificate againstrootcertificates in store

Hello Kim,

My previous answer was a little more general (than certificate
verification). Mono itself doesn't offer, nor plan to, any kind of
integration with the Windows certificate store.

You either have to:
(a) use Fx 2.0 new X.509 classes;
(b) p/invoke into CryptoAPI yourself; or
(c) use existing wrappers classes (like Mentalis).

On Tue, 2005-11-10 at 16:33 +0200, Hellan.Kim KHE wrote:
> Hi Sebastien
> 
> Okay, so it can't be done with the current build :(
> Then what about some functionality to retrieve all certificates from
> the store. Is that available?
> I could always do the verifying manually then.
> 
> Or I could do a more specific search for a root certificate with a
> Common Name that matches the issuer in the certificate. And then check
> if that specific CA is the issuer of my end certificate.
> 
> Are there any current functionality to get a specific certificate from
> the "Trusted root authorities" store then. And then verify that this
> certifcate is the issuer certificate?
> 
> I know I'm ignoring checking of certificate chains here. I just want
> to make a simple check if possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kim
> 
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> [mailto:mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] På vegne af Sebastien
> Pouliot
> Sendt: 11. oktober 2005 15:54
> Til: Hellan.Kim KHE
> Cc: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> Emne: Re: [Mono-list] Verifying end certificate against
> rootcertificates in store
> 
> Hello Kim,
> 
> You either have to use Fx 2.0 which has much expanded support for
> X.509
> or p/invoke into CryptoAPI.
> 
> IIRC Mentalis has a library that wraps most of CryptoAPI
> for .net/windows apps.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-11-10 at 15:46 +0200, Hellan.Kim KHE wrote:
> > I'm looking for the "correct" way of verifying the issuer of a
> > X509Certificate (end certificate) against all root certificates in
> found
> > in the LOCAL_MACHINE "Trusted root authorities" certificate store in
> > Windows.
> > 
> > Does anyone have some example code they want to share for doing that
> > task?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > /Kim
> 
-- 
Sebastien Pouliot
email: sebastien at ximian.com
blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/





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