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Enumerating a user secure certificate store in C#

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Reading a user's certificate store can be a very useful thing in C#, especially when dealing with anything at a low-level Windows usage, such as checking to see if the user on a domain has a valid certificate to use an Encrypted File System (EFS).

It is pretty straight-forward, so without further ado, here is how it is done:

X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.CurrentUser);

store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly | OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly);



foreach (X509Certificate2 cert in store.Certificates)

{

    // Cert thumbprint

    string thumbprint = cert.Thumbprint;



    // Cert serial number

    string serial = cert.SerialNumber;



    // Cert issuer

    string issuer = cert.Issuer;



    // Cert notbefore entry

    DateTime notbefore = cert.NotBefore;



    // Cert notafter entry

    DateTime notafter = cert.NotAfter;



    // Enumerate cert extensions, you can then cast them to their specific cert extension type if needed

    foreach (X509Extension ext in cert.Extensions)

    {

        string friendlyname = ext.Oid.FriendlyName;

        string value = ext.Oid.Value;

    }

}


That's all I have for now, pretty short entry, but a useful bit of code.

X509in' Tom Out.

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CSharp

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