Creating Certificates in C#

How to Create Certificates in C#

Certificates in C# 

 

The namespace responsible for all concepts is "System.Security" Furthermore, the namespace specific to the certification concept is "System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates". The X509Certificates class is mainly used to generate a certificate for an individual solution.

The System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates namespace contains the common language run time implementation of the Authenticode X.509 v.3 certificate. This certificate is signed with a private key that uniquely identifies the holder of the certificate.

 

Create a quick certificate from one resource file

/First you need to get the contents of your resource file in which your encrypted data resides.
private MemoryStream getCertificate()
{
    String certificateFilePath = < Your resource file path > ;
    var readCertStream = new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes(certificateFilePath));
    return readCertStream;
}
//Second call your previous method to generate the actual certificate
private X509Certificate readCertificate(MemoryStream argInputStream, string argCertificateType)
{
    X509Certificate certificate = null;
    t
    private X509Certificate readCertificate(MemoryStream argInputStream, string argCertificateType)
    {
        X509Certificate certificate = null;
        certificate = new X509Certificate(getCertificate().ToArray());
        return certificate;
    }
}

In the certificate object you should have your actual certificate.

 

Happy Coding :)