certtool Overview

The Symbian platform provides a certificate store, certstore for short, which is a repository of root and user certificates which can be retrieved and used to accomplish a variety of tasks. The certstore is initially empty. certtool is a a user-friendly eshell program for inserting certificates and manipulating their settings.

This document explains how to manipulate the certstore using certtool. It is of interest to anyone that needs to build, manipulate and maintain a certstore for the Symbian platform. You can use certtool to do the following:

  • list the contents of a certificate store

  • insert and remove certificates

  • manipulate application trust settings, for example, make a certain certificate trusted for use with TLS/SSL, software install, and so on.

  • provide support for multiple certstore implementations

certtool must be used from an eshell. You can start it using eshell.exe.

Related concepts
certtool Tutorials
Related reference
certtool Reference