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<concept id="GUID-9F1EF48F-8AA7-5235-B96C-4A02CAC0422F" xml:lang="en"><title>certtool
Overview</title><abstract><shortdesc>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. <codeph>certtool</codeph> is a a user-friendly eshell program for inserting
certificates and manipulating their settings. </shortdesc> <p>This document
explains how to manipulate the certstore using <codeph>certtool</codeph>.
It is of interest to anyone that needs to build, manipulate and maintain a
certstore for the Symbian platform. You can use <codeph>certtool</codeph> to
do the following: </p> </abstract><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<ul>
<li id="GUID-E138FF57-A58F-5908-A3B0-E25454CC8A0C"><p>list the contents of
a certificate store </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-7C3474C4-45BD-5D04-83FF-98ABA6297534"><p>insert and remove certificates </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-138481CE-4C9D-5684-8BF8-9DB71D649B8D"><p>manipulate application
trust settings, for example, make a certain certificate trusted for use with
TLS/SSL, software install, and so on. </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-F9E05480-8741-57A3-ACBC-CF6C3AE07BD3"><p>provide support for
multiple certstore implementations </p> </li>
</ul>
<p> <codeph>certtool</codeph> must be used from an eshell. You can start it
using <filepath>eshell.exe</filepath>. </p>
</conbody><related-links>
<link href="GUID-4462E8C8-CF27-5F3B-ACE3-4213DA6C377C.dita"><linktext>certtool
Reference</linktext></link>
<link href="GUID-8A80DD04-075D-5CF2-9A70-F6DDDD7D54BC.dita"><linktext>certtool
Tutorials</linktext></link>
</related-links></concept>