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diff --git a/src/mscng/README b/src/mscng/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72b37baf --- /dev/null +++ b/src/mscng/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +What version of Windows? +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +The Microsoft CNG API is a set of BCrypt* and NCrypt* functions. Taking +BCryptOpenAlgorithmProvider() as a representative example, the minimum +supported client is Windows Vista and the minimum supported server is Windows +Server 2008. + +Keys manager with MS Certificate store support. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +Similarly to the nss and mscrypto backends, the xmlsec-mscng keys manager is +based on the simple keys store from xmlsec core. If keys are not found in the +simple keys store, then the MS Certificate store (the "MY" store by default, +visible as Personal -> Certificates in certmgr.msc) is used to look up keys. +The certificate store from the OS is a read-only store. |