Enumerating Certificates Issue (X509Certificate2)

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I am attempting to enumerate certificate stores on my server and get information about each certificate. The code works correctly except it is missing all certificates found in the "Intermediate Certification Authorities" store.

string[] stores = new string[] { "AddressBook", "AuthRoot", "CertificateAuthority", "Disallowed", "My", "Root", "TrustedPeople", "TrustedPublisher" };
              for (int x = 0; x < stores.Length; x++)
              {
                  X509Store store = new X509Store(stores[x],StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

                  store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly);

                  foreach (X509Certificate2 mCert in store.Certificates)
                  {
                            //handle certificates
                      }

              }

Posted 30-Jan-12 6:36am

*vesuvious*

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*vesuvious* · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-30T08:00:00

I ended up getting it to work, for some reason for every store except "CertificateAuthority" you can pass the name as done in my original code (stores[x]). For "CertificateAuthority" I had to explicitly pass "Store.CertificateAuthority".

C#

//Old Code
string[] stores = new string[] { "AddressBook", "AuthRoot", "CertificateAuthority", "Disallowed", "My", "Root", "TrustedPeople", "TrustedPublisher" };
X509Store store = new X509Store(stores[x],StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

//New Code
X509Store store2= new X509Store(StoreName.CertificateAuthority, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);