Minibrowser using Microsoft web control & Certificates

[carlblanchard]

Hi All,

I'M creating my own mini broswer and i wish to try and embed a certificate into it, the browser will only be used to broswe my website and i would like to do a request.certificate to ensure they are using my browser. The certificate will be stored on a usb key.

Any comments, throughts and ideas about this please

[carlblanchard]

OK After a little digging arround this is what ive come up with.

Certmgr.exe is the manager for certificates on the clients computer. So for example my MiniBrowser could perform the following.

1 User runs my MiniBrowser (using ms web control)
2 MiniBrowser installs a certificate into CertMgr.exe
3 Minibrowser navigates to my site
4 Site does a request.certificate
Becuase cert is in manager website will find it
can do fancy checking and stuff here
5 user closes my browser down, So onClosing event i remove the certificate,

Also fancy code to check the headers of the browser i persume i can pass my own header to my site and then check for that, if not match = Not using my minibrowser......

Comments and throughts please

[carlblanchard]

ok i think ive answered my own question once again

System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates Namespace is that what would be controlling the certmgr ?