Outlook and CSPs   

I've written my own CSP, installed it, tested it with the CSP test suite, and 
now want to try it with Microsoft Outlook. How do I get Outlook to use my CSP?

What I actually want to do is encrypt and decrypt emails using Outlook and I 
want Outlook to offload the cryptographic processing to my CSP. Can anyone 
suggest a link that might help me do this, or perhaps explain what's invloved?

date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:18:00 -0700   author:   jantes

RE: Outlook and CSPs   

Hi,

Outlook uses IE certificate store to access the user private key and do the 
necessary cryptographic processing. So, in the "MY" store, you must have a 
certificate associated with a private key from your CSP and this certificate 
must contain an email address that matches the one of your Outlook user 
account.

In order to put your certificates and their private key handles into the 
"MY" store, you have to write a program that query all the available 
containers on your CSP, find the ones that contain a key pair and a 
certificate and then create the appropriate entry on the "MY" store using 
CertAddEncodedCertificateToStore and CertSetCertificateContextProperty.

Cheers,
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Mounir IDRASSI
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"jantes" wrote:

> I've written my own CSP, installed it, tested it with the CSP test suite, and 
> now want to try it with Microsoft Outlook. How do I get Outlook to use my CSP?
> 
> What I actually want to do is encrypt and decrypt emails using Outlook and I 
> want Outlook to offload the cryptographic processing to my CSP. Can anyone 
> suggest a link that might help me do this, or perhaps explain what's invloved?

date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:22:01 -0700   author:   Mounir IDRASSI am