Working with Certificates in Certificate Stores

Several functions add a certificate context or a link to a context to a store.

For certificates already in certificate context form:

• CertAddCertificateContextToStore
• CertAddCRLContextToStore
• CertAddCTLContextToStore
• CertAddCertificateLinkToStore
• CertAddCRLLinkToStore
• CertAddCTLLinkToStore

For certificates that are in encoded form but not full certificate contexts:

• CertAddEncodedCertificateToStore
• CertAddEncodedCRLToStore
• CertAddEncodedCTLToStore

The following functions delete a certificate, CRL, or CTL from a store by decrementing its reference count by one. If this causes the reference count to become zero, the memory used to store the certificate, CRL, or CTL is freed.

• CertDeleteCertificateFromStore
• CertDeleteCRLFromStore
• CertDeleteCTLFromStore