Introduction

The eSecurityConsole is a utility that allows management of security resources such as key containers within Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) databases, and Digital Certificates within Certificate Stores.  These resources provide security services such as encrypting, decrypting, verifying, signing, and so on, which can be used to secure external files.

This version of eSecurityConsole uses the same engine as the Framework EDI component.

Starting eSecurityConsole

When the eSecurityConsole is launched, it immediately collects information of all the CSPs in the system, and displays these CSPs in a list.  The start up operation only gathers key containers of the CSP that are available for the logon user only.  Once the application has been launched, the following resources are displayed in a hierarchical structure.  In this hierarchy, the nested sub object is an item belonging to the object that directly nests it.

• Cryptographic Service Providers
  
• Key Containers
  
• Algorithms

The information hierarchy to view digital certificates in the system is as follows:

• Certificate Store Locations
  
• Certificate System Store
  
• Digital Certificates