{"categories":[{"label":"Cryptography","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/security-cryptography"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Accesses Windows system certificate stores (CA and CRL) via ctypes and crypt32.dll to extract certificates for SSL/TLS operations.","skillfed_tags":["windows-only","deprecated","legacy"],"use_cases":["Extract CA certificates from Windows system store for legacy Python 2.7 applications that predate automatic cert loading.","Access CRL (Certificate Revocation List) certificates from Windows' cert store in older codebases.","Build a temporary certificate bundle file from Windows system stores for use with ssl.wrap_socket on Python 2.7.","Enumerate certificates by enhanced key usage (e.g., SERVER_AUTH, CLIENT_AUTH) on Windows in pre-2.7.9 Python environments."],"what_it_does":"wincertstore is a Windows-specific library that provides direct access to the operating system's certificate stores (CA and CRL) using ctypes to call the Windows crypt32.dll API. It allows you to enumerate certificates from Windows' system stores, filter them by enhanced key usage (such as SERVER_AUTH or CLIENT_AUTH), and extract them in PEM format or as a temporary certificate file for use with Python's ssl module.\n\nThe package is explicitly deprecated: since Python 2.7.9, the standard library's ssl.create_default_context() automatically loads certificates from Windows' cert store, making this package unnecessary for most modern use cases. The project is abandoned (last commit 2021-06-28, repository archived), and it targets only Python 2.7 and Python 3.0\u20133.3, making it incompatible with current Python versions.","worth_installing":"No. The package is abandoned, deprecated by design, and incompatible with Python 3.4+. Modern Python (2.7.9+) handles Windows certificate stores automatically via ssl.create_default_context(). Install only if you are maintaining legacy Python 2.7 code that predates this built-in behavior and cannot upgrade."},"id":"wincertstore","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/wincertstore","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/wincertstore.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/wincertstore/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2021-06-08","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"wincertstore","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Python module to extract CA and CRL certs from Windows' cert store (ctypes based)."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":395270,"position":6983,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.2.1"}