Managing Certificates
The best way to feel comfortable with certificates is to actually start working with them. J2SE environment supports keystore files to store certificates and includes keystore file jre-home\lib\security\cacerts to hold a number of trusted certificates. We talk more about how to work with Java keystore files shortly. The MS-Windows operating system also bundles a number of different types of certificates within its certificate store. These certificates can be examined through Windows tools.
Windows Certificate Store
Let us explore the certificates stored on a Windows 2000 machine. We will go through the following sequence of steps: pick a specific certificate, export it into a certificate file and examine those files.
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