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Certificate Store Human-Readable File Formats

This section provides details of the human-readable form of the following certificate store files:

Note: For details of the fields that make up these certificate store files, see Human-Readable File Formats Reference .

File certificate store

Use the --hfilecertstore command-line option to specify the file certificate store in human-readable form. The file certificate store has the following format:

       
        
       
       StartCertStoreEntries

            StartEntry "Root5CA"

                        Deletable true

                        Format EX509Certificate

                        CertOwnerType ECACertificate

                        SubjectKeyId auto

                        IssuerKeyId auto

                        StartApplicationList

                                    # Entry 1

                                                    Application "Server Authentication"

                        EndApplicationList

                        Trusted true

                        DataFileName "root5ca.pem"

            EndEntry

EndCertStoreEntries

Notes:

All the fields are mandatory and must be in the specified order.
Text outside quotes is not case-sensitive.

SWI certificate store

Use the --hswicertstore command-line option to specify the Software Install (SWI) certificate store in human-readable form. The SWI certificate store is of the following format:

       
        
       
       StartSwiCertStoreEntries

            StartEntry "SymbianA"    

                        Format EX509Certificate

                        CertOwnerType ECACertificate

                        SubjectKeyId auto

                        IssuerKeyId auto

                        StartApplicationList

                                    # Entry 1

                                                    Application "SW Install"

                                    # Entry 2

                                                    Application "SW Install OCSP Signing"

                        EndApplicationList

                        Trusted true

                        DataFileName "cert.der"

                        CapabilitySet { TCB CommDD PowerMgmt MultimediaDD ReadDeviceData 
WriteDeviceData DRM TrustedUI ProtServ DiskAdmin NetworkControl 
AllFiles SwEvent NetworkServices LocalServices ReadUserData 
WriteUserData Location SurroundingsDD UserEnvironment }

                        Mandatory false

                        SystemUpgrade false

            EndEntry

EndSwiCertStoreEntries

Note:

All the fields are mandatory and must be in the specified order.
Text outside quotes is not case-sensitive.

Certificate client files

Use the –hcertclients command-line option to specify the certificate client files in human-readable form. A certificate client file has the following format:

       
        
       
       StartClientInfo

        # Entry 1

        Uid 0x100042ab

        Name "SW Install"

        # Entry 2

        Uid 0x1000a8b6

        Name "SW Install OCSP Signing"

        # Entry 3

        Uid 0x101f9b28

        Name "MIDlet Installation"

        # Entry 4

        Uid 0x1000183d

        Name "Server Authentication"

EndClientInfo

Important:

All the fields are mandatory and must be in the specified order.
Only one entry is allowed for each UID.

Parent topic: Security Tools

Related reference

Certificate Store Binary Files