Legal to redistribute "certmgr.exe" and "makecert.exe"?

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jonathan.lampe@standardnetworks.com - 03 Aug 2006 15:09 GMT

I'm trying to find a Microsoft alternative to the OpenSSL tools and I'm
wondering if it's legal to redistribute these executables:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\certmgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\makecert.exe

(Part of my application generates self-signed test certs; we currently use
OpenSSL to generate them and some custom code to drop them into the Microsoft
Cert Store.)

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Lori Pearce [MSFT] - 03 Aug 2006 20:06 GMT

It is not legal to redistribute these files without an expressed, written
license from Microsoft.

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Lori Pearce [MSFT]
Windows SDK Team

> I'm trying to find a Microsoft alternative to the OpenSSL tools and I'm
> wondering if it's legal to redistribute these executables:
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> Microsoft
> Cert Store.)

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jonathan.lampe@standardnetworks.com - 03 Aug 2006 20:48 GMT

How might one go about getting an expressed, written license from Microsoft?

-jgl

> It is not legal to redistribute these files without an expressed, written
> license from Microsoft.
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> > Microsoft
> > Cert Store.)

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Lori Pearce [MSFT] - 04 Aug 2006 17:12 GMT

You might try to VSIP program or partner marketing.

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Lori Pearce [MSFT]
Windows SDK Team

> How might one go about getting an expressed, written license from
> Microsoft?
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>> > Microsoft
>> > Cert Store.)

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