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I just bought a code-signing certificate for the first time. I'm successfully signing my code from script/command line using

signtool sign /f <pfx file> /p <password> <exe file>

I noticed that signtool also has a /a option that will "choose the best certificate", which I believe uses any certificates imported into the Windows Certificate Store to select from.

If I double-click my cert, it opens the Certificate Import Wizard.

What are the pros/cons of using the Certificate Store? In particular for an individual developer.

It looks like with the certificate store I do not need to use provide the password for each call. I guess that means the certificate store is linked to my user and uses my login credentials to validate use of the certs?

Thanks, Brett