Certificate Stores In Windows

Certificate Stores Locations on Windows Where system certificate stores are located on my Windows system? The way Microsoft keeps system certificate stores on Windows 10, 8, or 7 is complicated: Certificates are first saved in multiple physical store files hidden on the hard disk. In Windows 10 it works on the first attempt. If I do it again, it gets stuck waiting. I tried to implement a 'timout timer' of 60 seconds: the provided piece of code just gets timed out. If the user removes his USB-key (or smartCard) that contains the certificate from the PC and inserts it again, the problem is solved. Jul 11, 2015  This Windows 10 shows you how to import a certificate to your personal certificate store. Just Double click on it and install it in the certificate container the system suggests. Most of the time. There are three types of certificate stores in Windows. User Account store; Service Account store; Local Computer store; Each of the three stores contain a number of folders which certificates go into. Personal (can be known as My when using scripts to add certs) Trusted Root Certification Authority (can be known as Root) Enterprise Trust.

In one of our earlier posts, we have seen what Root Certificates are. There may be times, when some companies or users may feel the need to manage and configure Trusted Root Certificates, to prevent other users in the domain from configuring their own set. In this post, we will see how to manage Trusted Root Certificates & add certificates to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store in Windows 10/8.1.

Manage Trusted Root Certificates in Windows

To add certificates to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store for a local computer, from the WinX Menu in Windows 10/8.1, open Run box, type mmcand hit Enter to open the Microsoft Management Control.

Press the File menu link and select Add/Remove Snap-in. Now under Available snap-ins, click Certificates, and then click Add.


Click OK. In the next dialog box, select Computer account and then on Next.
Now select Local computer and click on Finish.
Now, back in MMC, in the console tree, double-click on Certificates and then right-click on Trusted Root Certification Authorities Store. Under All tasks, select Import.
The Certificate Import Wizard will open.
Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete the process.

Now let us see how to configure and manage trusted root certificates for a local computer. Open MMC and press the File menu link and select Add/Remove Snap-in. Now under Available snap-ins, click Group Policy Object Editor, and then click Add. Select the computer whose local GPO you want to edit, and click Finish / OK.
Now, back in the MMC console tree, navigate to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings. Next Public Key Policies. Double-click Certificate Path Validation Settings, and then select the Stores tab.

Here, select the Define these policy settings, Allow user trusted root CAs to be used to validate certificates and Allow users to trust peer trust certificates checkboxes.

Finally under Stores tab > Root certificate stores, select one option under Root CAs that the client computers can trust and click OK. If in doubt, go with the recommended option.

To see how you can manage trusted root certificates for a domain and how to add certificates to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store for a domain, visit Technet.

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When I import a public/private pair into windows certificate store, Windows does not require any password of any kind to encrypt the keys.

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From that I conclude that if it is a user's store, it uses the user's password (or probably the user's hashed password) to encrypt the private key, and, if it is the local machine store, it is probably some kind of hardware-based key to encrypt the private key.

Did I get it right???

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And if I did, what is the point of non-exportable keys if I can decrypt the keys???

And last question - If I got it right up to here, what are the alternatives?

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As 'SLanks' link explains, the private keys are encrypted with the user's password or the machines's password (depends on the location of the keys in the store).

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Therefore, anyone who can log to the machine can obtain to this user's keys and anyone who has access to the machine can obtain keys stored for the local machine.

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