(UPDATED) My Certificates are WHERE?

Dismas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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

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Re: My Certificates are WHERE? by NetWallah (Canon) on Nov 09, 2004 at 21:34 UTC
From the MSDN article How to Remove a Personal Certificate from Internet Explorer - Article ID 185059 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My\Certificates This registry key contains the keys that represent your personal certificates. To remove a specific personal certificate, delete the corresponding registry key. Earth first! (We'll rob the other planets later)	[reply]
Re^2: My Certificates are WHERE? by Dismas (Acolyte) on Nov 09, 2004 at 22:02 UTC
Thanks. Paint my face red. Duh..... I really did look, just not quite hard enuff, I guess.	[reply]
Re: My Certificates are WHERE? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2004 at 19:35 UTC
What does microsoft developer network say?	[reply]
Re^2: My Certificates are WHERE? by Dismas (Acolyte) on Nov 09, 2004 at 19:49 UTC
Nada, zip, zilch, niente, nichts, nihi, bupkis, gornisch... Well, you get the idea. And yes, I did look.	[reply]