Certificates

Certificates provide a means to authenticate applications, users, mobile operators, and servers. Certificates can be added to certificate stores, and the list of supported certification authorities can be modified.

Although certificates are managed on Microsoft® Windows® Mobile-based Pocket PC, the Pocket PC does no certificate checking for installation or execution of applications. It manages certificates through certificate stores and the CertificateStore Configuration Service Provider . The CertificateStore Configuration Service Provider manages X.509 certificates on mobile devices.

For information about how to add certificates, see one of the following topics:

• CertificateStore Configuration Service Provider Examples

For information about the Microsoft Certificate Server, see the following Microsoft TechNet technical articles:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Public Key Infrastructure Introduction
• Planning Your Public Key Infrastructure

In This Section

• Certificate Stores
  Discusses the certificate stores and default certificates for Pocket PC and Smartphone.
• Certificate Enrollment
  Describes Certificate enrollment, the process of acquiring a digital certificate from a certification authority, and presents options for acquiring a digital certificate for public key-based services and applications in Microsoft® Windows® CE .

Related Sections

• Cryptography
  Describes Cryptography that provides encryption for privacy, hashing for data integrity over a nonsecure channel, and digital signature for authentication.

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