Windows XP Pro SP-3
I happened to be in the Certificate Manager (certmgr.msc) and noticed
there were some oddball named collection stores for certs shown in the
tree list. Normally you would see:
Certificates - Current User
Personal
...
Trusted People
These are the names of the collection stores for organizing the
certificates installed on your host. See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378130(VS.85).aspx
I expected to see those collections but what I did not expect were the
last three which were named with box characters, so the collection
stores list looks like:
Certificates - Current User
Personal
...
Trusted People
[]
[][][]
[][][][][]k
where each [] is a box character. There are no certificates listed
under these collections. When I look in the registry, these cert
collections are listed under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\SystemCertificates
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\SystemCertificates
Those oddball named collections are listed. Each has the Certificates,
CRLs, and CTLs subkeys needed to link to the certs under a collection.
I just can't see why they are needed or why they would use non-printable
characters. What are they for?
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