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Store an X509Certificate2 in DB

Is it possible to store an X509Certificate2 in a SQL Server table rather than pull a .p12 file from the file system? I'm sure you can but not sure how to go about this.

Solution

  • This is definitely possible, the X509Certificate2 has a RawData property that can be saved into your SQL Database. To reconstruct the certificate you can use this constructor

    var cert = new X509Certificate2(filename);
var data = cert.RawData;

// save data to database...

// Fetch data from database...

cert = new X509Certificate2(data);