Certificates

• There only two exports type: pfx and pem

  https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/blob/a450cb69b5e4549f5515cdb057a68771f56cefd7/src/Shared/CertificateGeneration/CertificateExportFormat.cs#L6

• X509Certificate2

  A convenient point of consideration might be https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/blob/0acb0e4c76a6db50baba3546343b0d27848b81f7/src/Tools/dotnet-dev-certs/src/Program.cs

• The main work is done by Crypt32.dll, which opens the storage

  https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/2327a36c5222a8e4e522ab27455bcbd8002efd06/src/libraries/System.Security.Cryptography/src/System/Security/Cryptography/X509Certificates/WindowsInterop.crypt32.cs#L48

• How build a project with strong name

  • generate key mykey.snk

  • add it to csproj

       <AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>../mykey.snk</AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>
          <SignAssembly>True</SignAssembly>
    

  • display public key

    cd in bin subfolder where the assembly is located
    sn -Tp tests.dll