A certificate store is a location in your local file system that contains personal certificates. The major store for the VPN Client is the Cisco store, which contains certificates you have enrolled for through the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP). Your system also includes a Microsoft certificate store that may contain certificates that your organization provides or that you have installed previously. You can manage them just like the certificates in your Cisco store, or you can import them to your Cisco store. New certificates obtained through enrollment or importing go into the Cisco store.
There are two types of Microsoft certificates: certificates for individuals to use and a Microsoft certificate for your local PC itself. So, if several people are using the same PC, each person can have his or her own certificate, and there can also be a certificate for the local system on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. On a Windows 98 system, you can use only non-exportable certificates with Internet Explorer version 5.1 SP2.
Microsoft certificates with non-exportable private keys are also available.
The Certificates tab displays a list of the certificates currently in your certificate stores. The display shows the following information:
Store--The name of the store that contains the certificate; this can be Cisco, Microsoft, Microsoft machine, Request, CA, or RA
Key Size--The size of the key pair in bits (512, 1024, and so on) that protects the certificate
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