My Nuggets

Verifying the private key property for a certificate in the store

I was recently asked as to how to figure out if the private key associated with a certificate is...

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 03/30/2010

Instantiate Microsoft Certificate Authority management interface using powershell

Microsoft's Certificate Authority management interface as mentioned in...

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 10/21/2009

exporting certificate from user store to PFX using powershell

Alright, so today someone tried to contact me with an interesting email about exporting the...

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 09/07/2009

Importing a PFX into user store using powershell

This is a short post as someone asked me to give a sample for importing a pfx into user store using...

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 08/27/2009

Generating a certificate (self-signed) using powershell and CertEnroll interfaces

In this article I will explore using the certenroll interfaces to create certificates for...

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 08/21/2009

Adding certificates for a serialized store (sst) file to an actual physical store

In my previous post I used the CMS type to open a PKCS7. Apparently X509Certificate2Collection...

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 08/13/2009

PKCS7 (p7b) bag of certificates and powershell

Recently I was asked how to extract the certificates within a PKCS7 (p7b) files using powershell....

Author: VishalAgarwal Date: 04/30/2009