The swiss knife for managing X509 certificates in Windows

Raffaele Rialdi, a security MVP from Italy, has just released a very cool tool to manage X509 certificates in windows. X509 certificates has always represent a pain for most developers, as they are hard to deploy or configure correctly with the right permissions. A tool like this is absolutely need when working with frameworks like WCF or WIF that makes an extensive use of certificates.

These are some of the features that you can find in this initial version,

  1. Ability to create self-signed certificates from the UI by specifying all the different settings that you need (certificate name, expiration dates, password, certificate store).
  2. Ability to browse the different certificate stores and do things like checking the certificate details, the chain trust for an specific certificate, or change its ACL permissions.

You will able to find more details about the tool here.

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