Windows Certificate Store
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Windows Certificate Store is a built-in Windows subsystem that securely stores and manages digital certificates and their associated private keys for use by applications and services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows Certificate Store canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2555989 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Windows Certificate Store Context triple: [Always Encrypted, supportsKeyStorageIn, Windows Certificate Store]
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A.
Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Certificate Services is a Windows Server role that provides public key infrastructure (PKI) functionality for issuing, managing, and validating digital certificates within an organization’s network.
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B.
X.509 certificates
X.509 certificates are digital documents that bind a public key to an entity’s identity using a trusted certificate authority, forming the basis of public key infrastructure for secure communications.
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C.
Windows Security app
The Windows Security app is a built-in Windows tool that centralizes and manages security features such as antivirus, firewall, and device protection settings.
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D.
Windows Registry
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database in Microsoft Windows that stores low-level settings and configuration information for the operating system and installed applications.
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E.
Client Certificate URL extension
The Client Certificate URL extension is a Transport Layer Security (TLS) mechanism that allows a client to provide a URL from which its certificate can be retrieved, rather than sending the certificate directly in the handshake.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Windows Certificate Store Target entity description: Windows Certificate Store is a built-in Windows subsystem that securely stores and manages digital certificates and their associated private keys for use by applications and services.
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A.
Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Certificate Services is a Windows Server role that provides public key infrastructure (PKI) functionality for issuing, managing, and validating digital certificates within an organization’s network.
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B.
X.509 certificates
X.509 certificates are digital documents that bind a public key to an entity’s identity using a trusted certificate authority, forming the basis of public key infrastructure for secure communications.
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C.
Windows Security app
The Windows Security app is a built-in Windows tool that centralizes and manages security features such as antivirus, firewall, and device protection settings.
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D.
Windows Registry
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database in Microsoft Windows that stores low-level settings and configuration information for the operating system and installed applications.
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E.
Client Certificate URL extension
The Client Certificate URL extension is a Transport Layer Security (TLS) mechanism that allows a client to provide a URL from which its certificate can be retrieved, rather than sending the certificate directly in the handshake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows security component
ⓘ
certificate management subsystem ⓘ |
| accessedVia |
.NET X509Store class
ⓘ
CNG API ⓘ Windows CryptoAPI ⓘ
surface form:
CryptoAPI
MMC Certificates snap-in ⓘ PowerShell certificate provider ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| hasLogicalStore |
AddressBook
ⓘ
AuthRoot ⓘ CA ⓘ My ⓘ Remote Desktop ⓘ Root ⓘ TrustedPeople ⓘ TrustedPublisher ⓘ |
| hasStoreLocation |
CurrentUser
ⓘ
Group Policy ⓘ
surface form:
GroupPolicy
LocalMachine ⓘ Service ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Active Directory Certificate Services
ⓘ
Windows user-mode subsystem ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Smart Card subsystem
Windows domain Group Policy ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| platform | Windows ⓘ |
| purpose |
certificate validation
ⓘ
management of digital certificates ⓘ secure storage of digital certificates ⓘ secure storage of private keys ⓘ support for TLS and SSL ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
access control lists on private keys
ⓘ
hardware-backed key storage support ⓘ integration with Data Protection API ⓘ |
| stores |
certificate revocation lists
ⓘ
code signing certificates ⓘ email protection certificates ⓘ enterprise trust certificates ⓘ intermediate CA certificates ⓘ personal certificates ⓘ private keys ⓘ public key certificates ⓘ smart card certificates ⓘ trusted root certificates ⓘ |
| supports | X.509 certificates ⓘ |
| supportsKeyStorage |
TPM-backed key storage
ⓘ
smart card key storage ⓘ software key storage ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
certificate enrollment
ⓘ
certificate export ⓘ certificate import ⓘ certificate renewal ⓘ certificate revocation checking ⓘ |
| usedBy |
.NET Core applications on Windows
ⓘ
.NET Framework applications ⓘ Google Chrome ⓘ
surface form:
Google Chrome on Windows
IIS ⓘ Internet Explorer ⓘ Microsoft Edge ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Edge (legacy)
Outlook ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Outlook
Remote Desktop Services ⓘ |
| usedFor |
client authentication
ⓘ
code signing ⓘ document signing ⓘ email encryption ⓘ server authentication ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Windows Certificate Store Description of subject: Windows Certificate Store is a built-in Windows subsystem that securely stores and manages digital certificates and their associated private keys for use by applications and services.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.