Re: [PATCH] crypt32: CryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey should look up certificate in the user's store if the provided certificate is not linked to a provider.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Hans Leidekker  wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 15:25 +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > Under Windows passing to CryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey() a certificate
> > retrieved from the key container using (KP_CERTIFICATE) +
> > CertCreateCertificateContext() works although such a certificate doesn't
> > have assigned properties at all. In order this to work Windows probably
> > looks up an original certificate in the user's private store.
>
> Does the function fail if you remove the original certificate from the
> private store?

You mean under Windows? Yes, it starts to fail after that.