Hi,

I'm trying to find Internet "certificate" information from within a Perl program instead of using the Certificates button under IE/Tools/Internet Options/Content. I thought they'd be in the registry, but that's turned into a blind alley. At least, I've not been able to find any there.

Can anyone shed some light on this murky (i.e. registry) topic?

The two replies as of 09 Nov. suggested the registry key HKCU/Software/Microsoft/SystemCertificates/My/Certificates. Well, it was worth some chagrin, and worth a try...

Sadly, that's as far as it went. On one of the two PCs where I tried it, the .../Certificates branch didn't even exist. On the other, it was empty. In *both* cases, the entire .../SystemCertificates/... branch was nearly empty (one contained a few "Blob" subkeys--REG_BINARY values).

So, while it sure looked promising, the promise was broken; the certificate data must lie somewhere else, and my question still stands. Bleah.

Thanks,

Dismas

In reply to (UPDATED) My Certificates are WHERE? by Dismas

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